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GUIDE BOOK 


University of Illinois 
Library at 
Urbana-Champaign OF THE 
Oak St. 
Unclassified 


CITY OF RICHMOND 


BY 


LOUISE NURNEY\KERNODLE 
(LOUISE ELDONREK) 
Author of the Series of Guide Books 


WITH VIEWS AND MAP OF THE CITY 
ALSO 


DESCRIPTION AND MAP OF BATTLEFIELDS 


Copyrighted 1914 


CENTRAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, Inc. 
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 
1919 


SF oreword 


HE 1919 EDITION of the Richmond Guide Book 

extends a welcome to strangers within our city, 

with the wish that it will meet all requirements 

for their guidance. To the citizens, many of 
whom are strangely unacquainted with their Richmond, 
their patronage and co-operation are solicited. 

In using this Guide, note that Main Street divides 
the City into North and South, and that Foushee Street 
divides it into East and West. Named streets are west 
of First, and numbered streets are east. 


To the Confederate Memorial Literary Society 
thanks are extended for information regarding Confed- 
erate Sites. 


Contents 


Puge. 

PO UIOTIOR NOE oon Fa eas eee eee eae TOT | fies 44 
First Virginia Regiment, Marshall and 7th Sts............ 44 
Howiltzers, 8th Street north of Leigh..............2..... 45 
Richmond Blues, Marshall and 6th Sts.................. 44 


Associated Charities, 1400 FE. Franklin Strect. 

Association for the Preseivation of Virginia Antiquities (Mar- 
shall Home), Marshall and 9th Ste................ 

Auditorium, Corner Cary and Linden Sts. 

FuLoMmobue: DTiveasor: LOUnsts” 9 ee: 825 ou). oe ese See Ty 


Baptist Home for Aged Women, 1400 Grove Ave. 
SRG eee i eee cate hee, dB inte a Ba. iend sae 
DRG LEO Cae URL OG eM 8a Tar veers a: vc «8 gee ene he jane ela ay 
Beth Ahabah Congregation, W. Franklin, facing Ryland St.... 
EOC LC nas ee Mr MES ode ain eS IA ew cane SG 
Bridper mV iatena mt eCtn INCU: 5 ysis ae Abe Somes sro cle « sins 
IN athe t OUPSCONE A. mITOOh wre sot orc hs, Oe PR Sem ee as 
Ninth Street, South end of 9th Street................... 
Buildings, Historic (see Historic Buildings, Homes and Sites) 


Cee Rate RM A ay, a ced at hk Mle cme hc nl can ccidaibas 

. See yita yet) A CE ek ils, SoM ho 25s a pats oe rains oD ol omiune 
|.) Cathedral, Sacred Heart, Paik Ave. and LauralSt............ 
PSO el or ite a. Ree ee. da Bp tidhy, week ks. cath 
N Hebrew (oldest in U.S.), Franklin near 21st Street....... 
\ Hollywood, between Cherry and Spring Streets.......... 
J Miguree talvnoy AGasnOlieg so Spe oo. Ug isi «se 
\ National, Williamsburg Tp. and Government Road....... 
S INGE Al ewes Eiieae oes ve ate Sock, Lees eee aL ba 
: Oakwood, North and Oakwood Aves.................... 
= (iiera@ ermeronems seas Ui ke Ay ee ie) a 
hk Riverview, connects with Hollywood................... 
ro St. Johns, Broad St. between 24th and 25th.......:...... 

>. Shockoe, Hospital St. between 2nd and 4th............ 


Re Chamber of Commerce, Cor. Main and 6th Stieets. 
* Children’s Home Society, 2605 E. Franklin Street. 


iy SEE ee TTS Gd Te toh Se Es We ae cea ho Oe 
no First Afiican Baptist, Cor. 14th and Broad Sts. .......... 
= Pirst Baptist..Cor Broadiand 12th Sts. <.2. f.. dave oc ore 
5 Monumental, Episcopal, Broad St. between 12th and 14th. 
oat St. Johns, Broad St. between 24th and 25th.............. 
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Page. 
City Hall, Broad St. between 10th and 11thth)see front cover). 31 
City of Richmond +432.2..43 \ a ee ee eee 17 
City Hospital, Cor. Clay and 12th Sts. 
Clubs: 


Albemarle, 811 E. Franklin St. 
Art Club of Richmond, 521 W. Grace St. 
Colonial Dames, 213 E. Franklin St. 
Commonwealth, 401 W. Franklin St. 
Country Club of Virginia, Westhampton................ 93 
Deep Run Hunt, Rio Vista. 
Hermitage Golf. 
Jefferson Club, 1801 W. Grace St. 
Westmoreland Club, Co1. Grace and 6th Sts............. 85 
Woman’s Club, 211 E. Franklin St. 
Colleges and Schools: 
Marshall High School, Cor. Marshall and 9th Sts. 
Medical College of Virginia, Clay and 12th, and Marshall 
and’ College Stic eee ne eae, Pee ee 81 
Mechanics Institute, Cor. Broad and 11th Sts............ 82 
Richmond College—Westhampton College, Westhampton. 
Union Theological Seminary, Ginter Park. 
Contederate = Fottiticationeestss 08 ain ee ee 89 
Confederate Home for Women, 3 E. Grace St. 
Confederate Memotial Institute—Battle Abbey—Boulevard.. 35 
Confederate Memorial Literary Society (Confederate Museum ) 


Cora Clayrand- 12th Sta ea i ee 32 
Confederate. “Money? ae ara ce eee ts ee 89 
Confederate Soldiers’ Home, Grove Ave.and Boulevard...... 36 
Depotsiand Wharves, How to reachemen 2 ee 105 
Episcopal Church Home for Women, 1621 Grove Ave......... 
Facts abot. Richmond 440 eee eer eee ae 101 
Fair Giounds, Boulevard and Heimitage Road. 

Falling’ -Greek 200 ei a ee ee ee 59 
Female Humane Society, [50 Gth Aves eee ee ee oz 
Governors’ Mansion, East end of Capitol Square............ ola 
Henrico County Courthouse, Main and 22nd Sts. 61 
Historic Buildings, Homes and sites +. see eee 47 
Alexander McRae’s'Home, 311 N-Sth’Ste 7.1552. .ee).- 87 
Austins of Texas Fame, Home of, Cor. Main and 14th Sts — 
Ballard Hotélse. ss. 53 Be ee ee ee 56 
Bells House, Capitol Square. 32.8. ee eee 24 
Belles Tale so sits cae ie « can ee ee es ee ene 60 
Bell Tavern: 22 orate. se ee eed ere en 54 


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Page 
SORT PAPEIL ITE Olu oe veces eae 1 OM as Ne 6 eptey tas 61 
ARR UR PANIC OL, oer de. Pale ch shee 4 a Tatas eee teas 54 
LZOTCUCTA ES NOVY BY ALO SItG. scree ns hoses Fe os ONS 59 


Confederate States Provost Marshall’s Office, Site of 
Southwest Cor. of Broad and 10th Sts. 


eae se PAVEITY ysl layers ate c Webemrent © abt, mn wes amet re 56 
Ege, Jacob, Home of (Old Stone House), East Main St. 
berweer Jot neands 20th oak bea Mahe ee, ete 52 
HOSA Os ek, tlle. Ola eee wee tee ace ee: cette cae, BS 
FES Gs Cie 7h OC GIL Yor, Cah oye ree atc te eee eG eee os a a 56 
Puts Doat te Olid CMON a sILG Ol noe ale eh ene Je osc oe ee 55 
Are POria hOUNUEY sti. 6 rt oat a ace ae i eens aware 59 
POR Me EL OGL USC ame eae). ee < ee. 0 eae as Bien aie ears bared 57 
DOCU Pah Cl tL mec neat att. tele tyes TAO nat sok a 57 
Penrice OU bec OUrA NOUS Rss © 7 fee en, tae ee 61 
DOH PELOT Ae WVIEMOLISAM LAD ICC Se 2s <p suieutoe whe Ke pistes: 55 


Laneastiian School, Site of—Tirst Public School in Rich- 
mond, Marshall St. between 15th and Jail Alley. 


Temi ier ome Ofe/ Ural PVanK IT Obs. .ciwee hc uit 50 
HVE) Sot Sew oS) OT STG 6) Wo ye eee eg AR hala en ed 60 
Marshall, John, Home ot, Cor. Marshali and 9th Sts...... 48 
Wirt see bncat ree mliGt es 4 er. we cae. bel phe 56 
Niastmeatial AC) dcctinelivculeuascn  ue) t a ae 53 
DISC VE ECUCH st tae PMN keels ns. ak ise ae 47 
Moore, Samuel Pieston, Site of Home.................. 49 
Office of Commissioncr of Revenue, Siteof .............. 61 
CC ARae MLN pS pestle ns gia om Uo Les, eee wine 82 
Old Fair Grounds, Monroe Park 

ob POPOL y HLOUSG. ikGt =. aba es as ra ee 57 
Welt SCCM FINO AOILEE nn fe, hh Ss. Reed Ss oe 60 
hoc, Woparhulativiearly Home Ol, Site, 40 ascas ates cen. 51 
NRaAUCO Me OmUNG OIL HOMme Of en" be tee oo 58 
FDOUEMSOTS LLOSDIUA, “OlGGianc. . sn... ae ts RAC ONES eae 58 
POOLE GUGMEL GH ly SIUC akon tar ook Sige Moe hen eee oe 55 
Bias LOter ste Ole a0, wie ta cn ee ao te. Bf 
FOC GUL mr ieee, Cos re te ea REL i 61 
PENAtia ss .piiouse In which hedied*., vss... ss. 51 
Pee abr ee LPO EL OMI sy Rese, at 5 en sn 87 
SESS MER oa T GOW Wy ae RN en GR fie 8 Wie ay 
AR ge a Beas Wited Wo Ve VON Ta case Pa 6 RR i a RS 59 
Praesens Wee EELLOMIGNOL ¢ o,f sh sg hoes « Se ee ee, a la 
WE OlGmerotriternttrioMmic Uh ees sn. crn: tite eer cee 49 


Home for-Incurables, Cor. Broad and Robinson Sts. 
Homes, Historical (See Historical Buildings, Homes and Sites. ) 


14 RICHMOND GUIDE BOOK 


Page 
Hotel Richmond: .:.. (sou serene ae ck ene cae 62 
Jail, Jail Alley and Marshali St. below Viaduct. 
James River,-Historicai Places = along. sec. ee ee ee 99 
Jetterson' LLotel: 2 wawuve ee tate Oe ae 2 sae rect e 46 
Ladies’ Benevolent Association, 10 E. Grace St. 
Gea, Camp,.618: Ha Broad ott free ee eee ee ee 89 


Little Sisters of the Poor. 

Male Orphan Asylum, Amelia between Allen and Meadow Sts. 
Manchester® fy, 3... chic os oe Le rE cae oR er ee 87 
Manufacturers’ Exhibit, Chamber of Commerce, Main Street 

at 6th. 

Masonic Home of Virginia, Nine Mile Road, 2 miles from Rich- 
mond. 

Medical: Colleret ot V ireiniase:, <1 eee te a eee $l 
Methodist Orphanage, Broad St., near Belt-line Railway. 
Monuments and Statues: 


Joseph Bryan, Monroe:Park.): sare ne 2 eee 75 
Henry Glay,.Capitol Square. cra ae, 2 ee eee 73 
Confederate Monument, Hollywood.................... 65 
Confederate Monument, Oakwoods 922)....... -. enue 67 
Confederate Women’s Memorial, Hollywood Cemetery... 66 
Jefferson Davis, Monument Ave., Hollywood Cemetery . .66-70 
Winnie Davis, Hollywood Cemetery)... ........%. 0.08 66 
A? P: Hill Hermitage Road eee eee ee 76 
Howitzers’ Monument, Harrison St. and Park Ave....... fd, 
T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson, Capitol Square.............. a 
Thomas Jetrerson, Jeerson Hotel ees ce at cee tHe 
Robert E. Lee, Monument-Ave.w: - see ee ee 70 
Dr. Hunter MoGuire, Capitol Squares, see eo, owe a 
Matthew Fontaine Maury... 2.4 eiee ete ee 64 
President Monro@v? 2a44...0 ee ee i eee eee 65 
Morgan’s Drinking Fountain.......... YO ELN ta OA 77 
General Pickett Fa hase tae oso otal oe eee ee en ae 63 
Governor William Smith, Capitol Square........... Ae ere 
Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument, Libby Hill............. 76 
J. E. B. Stuart, E. End of Monument Ave.............. 69 
President Tyler, Hollywood Cemetery.................. 64 
Washington by Houdon, (frontispiece), Capitol Building. 4 
Washington, Equestrian Statue, Capitol Square......... 25 
General Wickham, Monroe Park... . 12s ese eee LO 
Museums: 
Confederate, Jefferson Davis’ Home.................<+- oe 
Confederate Memorial Institute (Battle Abbey)......... 35 


John Marshall: Home. ..c uo. ce, ee ee 48 


RICHMOND GUIDE BOOK — 15 


Page 
ERGO LuDREN. GADitOlmouarete: = coh otal. ee hp ne on, 27. 
VEINENG yg eae et fe er ne Sie eel Bie 34 
Cid emOLel = IACKSON'S HOtse oe eee ee ore 36 
Paintings and Portraits of Historical Interest......... 23-28-85-89 
Parks: 
YY DUES ESOT CG rw bare ee) teat Galea thy ety Name 79 
SUID DOLREO dee ete eed Sa toe hee ke TO ie 79 
Oe Cy ELI ia ee etre meee SSP Wn Ger fee Oe eet) Peta oe) RAE 79 
EPS aV eM a OT beer 2h Oy a ape IS AY Re nS BA eS ROGE A t 80 
BEET CROTON ae, OH he: ok ORC alee 80 
AEC Ce gated tot laa, Sent een ae Oe a oe ca WOR TY 79 
DETTE oh DD Ke eS Sho ed pa eS te Tl Se a A? 79 
DE OUEGO aye ea eee ae Lee Pee a SES, 80 
bE a1ah ee ia Te amy eee SONS yg eRe RE Toe oa I RMP a ee RD he i 82 
PSLCraInT Cane ten ce ee eee oe heh, gat eee Ate ety 107 
Portraits (See Paintings, etc.). 
Lost Ou ce wae emer e te 24 5 pene 5 See 3 Bie els 32 
POU THELAI ATC AN Coe eremens Macnee Sane lei Moe 68 
[Sg hieehaVVatic ey CR AIOTIRS JU w ey A) Sasi ca = Oman a ane eae aA men ee ee — 9i 
Prati Castles A Pra ee ai ear yee cy 6 sul ee 69 
Red Cross Headquarters, Grace Street at 4th. 
Seeing Richmond.......... Ae UTS Ue onan Pe ee ea eae 21 
Sisters of Charity, 207 N. 26th St. 
Sons of American Revolution, 707 E. Franklin St. 
Shaver aDrarve.ceipico) ms UUaAlel tn ej a oa ake te be 27 
Statues, (see Monuments and Statues). 
Aoi OL lontik chirom De. mere tee oe Pesky Deity ees Sie’, 77 


Travelers’ Protective Association, 301 E. Main St. 
Virginia Historical Society, R. E. Lee’s Home, 707 E. Franklin. 50 


Wesener isureay.: (ninboraz0 Patiew mec. 4 Aga fo nhs 61 
Wethneat en iM Onineeee ee ei SR ear 2d Tels 43 
Y GUM Ven 6 CNistlarTASSOCIADION ates teks akeit sane) arcu e la 43 
Young Men’s Christian Association, Railroad............... 44 


Young Men’s Hebrew Association, 412 N. 8th St. 
Young sw omens Christian Associatlonay. oe «4 2257. owe ce 43 


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City of Richmond. 


ICHMOND is the Capital and chief city 
of Virginia in size and importance. 
Population in 1917, 188,000, of which 
105,000 are white. Built on seven hills 
by the side of the James River, in 
Henrico County, 90 miles from the sea. 
The site was discovered in 1607 by 
Captains Newport and John Smith, 

when visiting Chief Powhatan and his daughter Pocahon- 

tas. Founded in 1737 by Colonel William Byrd.  Incor- 
porated as a town in 1742 and as a city in 1782. Became 
the capital of Virginia in 1779, the seat of government 
being transferred from Williamsburg, owing to the 
presence of British 
troops in that vicinity. 

Famous as the chief 

city of the South in 

the rebellion against 

King George and as 

the capital of the Con- 

federacy in the war be- 

tween the States, 1861- 

1865. 

The seven hills of 
Richmond have been 
variously known as 
Church Hill, Libby 
Hill, Smith’s Hull, 
Gamble’s Hill, Oregon 
Hill, Hollywood Hill 
and Capitol Hill. No 
doubt they bore other 
names when Captain 
John Smith and _ his 

CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH exploring party came 

sailing up the river 

from Jamestown and landed at the foot of the falls or 
rapids, below the heights now known as Gamble’s Hill 

Park. ' 


18 RICHMOND GUIDE BOOK 


Standing on the heights Captain mith and his com- 
panions could see what is now Belle Isle just below them. 
A cross set up on top of the hill marks the spot where 
Captain Smith and his companions, the famous Captain 
Newport, Gabriel Archer, Captain George Percy and 
others landed. These may have served as an inspiration 
to Mary Johnston when she wrote of the gallant Captain 
Ralph Percy in one of her historical novels. 

To the southeast where is now Duch Gap, was the 
site which would be called Henricopolis by the gallant 
Dale after his patron, Prince Henry, eldest son of King 
James. The settlement of Henricopolis led finally to the 
settlement ot Richmond; 
when that place was de- 
stroyed by the Indians 
it was natural that the 
advance guard of civil- 
ization would choose a 
site easier to defend 
against atitack, and 
Richmond, at the falls, 
was such a place. 

But to return to 
Captain Smith and his 
party, looking down the 
James,—the same river 
upon which the canoe 
of Pocahontas had 
skimmed many times; 
for she was the daughter 
of Powhatan, greatest of 
all the Indian chiefs, and 
hailed as Emperor by 
the British. At Captain a AM eA ee 
Smith’s back was another stream, called “Shaccc,” from an 
Indian camp, and now named Sho ckoe. Branching from 
the creek might be seen another stream which came to be 
known as Bacon Quarter branch, because Nathaniel 
Bacon owned a farm that bordered on this <!resi. and 
his band had their winter-quarters there during n.s creat 
Indian campaign, it is said. | 

In later days Bacon Quarter bian:: un Shockoe 
creek served the city as a sewer; for many yeu. both ran 
brazenly through Shockoe creek valley, with no attempt 


RICHMOND GUIDE BOOK 19 


to cover them until 1914, when the work of converting 
the streams into a closed sewer was begun. 

In the time that has elasped since Captain John 
Smith stood on the top of Gamble’s Hill there have been 
many changes and ancient landmarks have disappeared. 
What is left of the great Kanawha canal may still be seen 
in the ribbon of water that flows at the foot of the hill 
close to the river. The Kanawha canal was at one time 
the dream of George Washington who was an engineer 
as well as a statesman and a soldier. It was to unite the 
James with the great western waters and form a great 
inland waterway from the west to the ocean. The canal 
starts just below Bosher’s dam, and forms the intake for 
the water supply of the city. Two large settling basins 
to purify the water have been built, but the growth of 
Richmond has compelled a greater undertaking and the 
city has now taken means to acquire Williams island in 
the river below Bosher’s dam to establish a greater and 
improved system. 

During the days of the Civil War many redoubts were 
erected around Richmond and traces of these may yet 
be seen. The fortifications stretched in a crescent from 
the river at a point below Rockets, along the heights 
outside the city until they swept around to the river again, 
above Hollywood. Traces of these old redoubts, twelve 
in number, may yet be seen. 

“Here,” too, in the cemeteries, “are the bloody 
fruits of Williamsburg. Seven Pines, Mechanicsville, 
Gaines’ Mill, Cold Harbor, Savage’s Station, Frazier’s 
Farm, Malvern Hill, Sharpsburg, Gettysburg, Fort 
Harrison, Yellow Tavern, Drewry’s Bluff and many other 
fields, where Confederate valor illumined the pages of 
history.” 

On the morning of April 3, 1865, the evacuation was 
complete, but beautiful Richmond was further doomed. 
Torches were ordered to be applied to several warehouses 
and from these the flames leaped to adjoining buildings 
and on and on till the heart of the city was only a heap 
of smoldering ruins. Mayo’s bridge and the railroad 
bridges were also set on fire. The burnt district stretched 
from the north side of Main street to the river, from 
Eighth to Fifteenth street east, and from Twentieth to 
Twenty-third streets. Nearly a thousand buildings were 
burned. 


20 RICHMOND GUIDE BOOK 


Towards the close of the Revolutionary war the trai- 
tor Benedict Arnold harried the city. He burned build- 
ings and a tobacco warehouse, with a great quantity of 
that prized product, to show his zeal in the British cause 
and his hatred of his countrymen. Arnold, it was said 
had become insane through remorse, fear and wounded 
vanity. His fury was that of a rabid dog, but his retreat 
was almost as rapid as his advance. 

By this way passed Lord Cornwallis on his march to 
the peninsula, entering Richmond on the 16th of June, 
1781, after having dispatched his generals as far west as 
Charlottesville to which place the State Government had 
been removed. 

Along the Brooks turnpike, which crosses the Shockoe 
creek valley, couriers made their way north to Ash- 
land, Fredericksburg, Stafford County Courthouse, 
Dumfree’s, Occoquan, Accotink, Mt. Vernon and Alex- 
andria, in ‘the days before the war, even as far back as 
Revolutionary times. In time of the war between the 
States, this road was known as the Telegraph road and 
many a bitter battle was fought for its control, as Marye’s 
Heights, Spottsylvania, the Wildreness, Cold Harbor 
and Yellow Tavern testify. Now, the road is a part of 
an automobile route, the most direct between Richmond 
and Washington, and is so noted in the automobile 
blue books. 

Richmond might soon become a motorists’ paradise 
for the scenery of the surrounding country is beautiful 
beyond descripticn, whether one goes down the Govern- 
ment road to the Williamsburg highway, which passes 
through the famous Chickahominy swamp where McClel- 
lan’s army was held at bay; along the Mechanicsville 
pike, where one of the most bitter battles of the war was 
fought by the men under Jaekson and Porter; along the 
brook turnpike to Yellow Tavern where Jeb Stuart was 
mortally wounded; or along the beautiful road to the 
Country Club and Westhampton, over the heights of 
which Dahlgren retreated with his raiders in the Civil War. 


Seeing Richmond. 


CAPITOL BUILDING. 


O SEE Richmond you first go to the Capital, which 
is in the heart of the city, bounded by Ninth, 
Capitol, Governor and Bank streets, between 
Broad and Main streets. The original build- 

ing was designed by Thomas Jefferson. He was minister 

to France at the time and became much impressed with 
the simplicity of the Greek style of architecture. It ap- 


al lala. ae 
iZAe 


CAPITOL BUILDING 


pealed to his Democratic simplicity. He draughted a 
plain Grecian structure the foundation for which was 
laid in 1785 and which was completed in 1792. Later on, 
more room being needed, a pair of wings was clapped on to 
it. This was in 1902. 

The Virginia Legislature or General Assembly meets 
every two years. The Senate sits in the west wing of the 


22 RICHMOND GUIDE BOOK 


capitol, the House of Delegates in the east wing. In the 
rotunda is the famous 


Houdon Statue of Washington 


which Washington saw and approved eight years before 
his death. The act of the Assembly voting the statue 
was passed in 1784, and the statue was erected in 1796. 

On January 6, 1866, three newspaper men used pistols 
freely in the rotunda of the capitol, the only damage being 
to the Houdon statue, the cane was broken and the 
tassel was knocked off by one of the balls. 

Near by is the bust of Lafayette, and bronze medal- 
ions of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, Captain John Smith, John 
Marshall and Fitzhugh Lee. An old stove, three stories 
high, built in 1770, which 
was ordered by Lord Bote- 
tourt, Governor, as a present 
for the Colonial House of 
Burgesses at Williamsburg, 
and a chair, used by the 
Speaker of the House of Bur- 
gesses, may be seen here also. 


The magnificent painting 
in the State Board of Educa- 


tion assembly room, repre- 
sents the storming of a British 
redoubt by the American 
forces. The picture was 
painted in 1840 by Louis Eu- 
gene Lami, of Paris, France, 
an artist of note in his day. 
Its dimensions are 16 x 20 
feet, exclusive of the frame. 

Sea In 1878, W. W. Corcoran pre- 
sented it to the State of Virginia. 

In the Governor’s apartment is a large oil painting 
of the first battle between ironclads,—the Monitor and 
the Merrimac or Virginia, in Hampton Roads, March 9, 
1862. 

During the war between the States, the Confederate 
Congress by courtesy of the State authorities held its ses- 
sions in the building. In the basement floor is the State 
Land office, containing records of grants and patents 
dating back to 1620. 


RICHMOND GUIDE BOOK 23 


Passing through the halls of the first floor, beginning 
at east end, may be seen a portrait of Rt. Hon. W. E. 
Gladstone, M. P., and in one frame the old church at 
Smithfield, Va., a silhouette of Bishop Richard Channing 
Moore; a picture of Joseph Cabell, associated with Jef- 
ferson in founding the University, and Conway Robinson, 
jurist and author. Also a picture of Lord Botetourt, 
governor of Virginia from 1770-’73; Queen Elizabeth 
from an old print, 1626. 
A picture of Richard 
Henry Lee, signer of the 
Declaration of Independ- 
ence, Lord Howard (Bar- 
on Effingham), governor 
of Virginia, 1686-’88. Sil- 
houette of Chief Justice 
Marshall; James Johnson 
governor of Virginia, 
1851-’56; William Smith, 
governor of Virginia, 
1846-’49, 1864-’65; Wil- 
liam Giles, governor of 
Virginia, 1827-’30; James 
McDowell, governor of 
Virginia, 1843-’46; David 
Campbell, governor of 
Virginia, 1837-’40. Pat- 
SPEAKER’S CHAIR rick Henry, Thomas 
Nelson, Jr., governor of 
Virginia, 1781. signer of Declaration of Independence 
and general in the Revolution. Thomas W. Gilmer gov- 
ernor of Virginia, 1840-41; John Tyler, governor of Vir- 
ginia. John R: Thompson, poet and author. George 
Percy, treasurer and acting goveinor, 1609-’10; James 
Monroe, governor, 1811, and President of the United 
States. Lord Dunmore, the last royal governcr of Virgin- 
ia; John Letcher, governor, 1860-64; Littleton Tazewell, 
governor, 1834-’36; John P. Preston, governor, 1816-19; 
James Barbour, governor, 1812-’14; Thomas West (Lord 
De La Warr), governor, 1810-11; John &mith, “Father 
of Virginia,” acting governor of Colony, 1608-’09; the 
Indian Princess Pocahontas; Edmund Pendleton, jurist 
and patriot. 
On April 27, 1870, sixty-five perscns were killed in 


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the Capitol by the floor of the House of Delegates falling. 
It was during a discussion. of carpet bag methods and a 
great crowd had assembled, filling the galleries. Under 
the unusual weight the floor gave way, falling into the 
hall below and burying scores under the timbers. Be- 
sides those killed, many were severely wounded. 


CAPITOL SQUARE. 


Occupying twelve acres in the center of the City is 
the Capitol Square, where under Lee and Jackson many 
of the Confederate soldiers were mustered into service 
during the Civil War. In the Capitol grounds are the 
Capitol buildings, where the “General Convention of the 
State of Virginia” met in 1861 and signed the Ordinance 
of Secession, and where the “Congress of the Confederate 
States of America’ 
held its sessions 
from July 20th, 
1861, to March 18, 
1865; Governor’s 
Mansion, State Li- 
brary; Statues of 
Henry Clay, Gov. 
Wm. Smith, Gen. 
T. J. (Stonewall) 
Jackson, and Dr. 
Hunter McGuire, 
also a weather bu- 
reau kiosk, and an 
old bell house, 
which was used as 
headquarters for 
the military Guard. 
The bell in the 
tower was tolled BELL TOWER 
for Monroe, Chief 
Justice Marshall, John Tyler and others. It was also used 
to strike the hours night and day. 


Craw ford’s Statue of Washington. 


Further, the Capitol grounds are adorned by Craw- 
ford’s equestrian statue of George Washington; the 
corner stone of the monument was laid in February, 1850. 


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Among those attending the ceremony were Zachary Tay- 
lor, President of the United States, John Tyler, Ex- Pres- 
ident of the United States, and Millard Fillmore, Vice- 
President of the United States. It was dedicated in 1858. 
It is 60 feet in height, and cost $260,000. The monument 
is surrounded by six bronze statues, namely: one each of 
Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, John Marshall, George 
Mason, General Andrew Lewis and Thomas Nelson. 
The equestrian statue that surmounts the base and 
towers above the six bronze figures that surround it, is 


WASHINGTON MONUMENT 


effective if not regarded too critically. Critics nave point- 
ed to the rocking-horse attitude of the steed and the 
blithesome wave of the rider’s arm, but the general pub- 
lic find the monument imposing. The figures around the 
base are heroes, everyone, as their attitudes imply. One 
is of Gen. Andrew Lewis, a tough old soldier of Revo- 
lutionary days, who fought Indians, British and Con- 
gressional cabals with equal courage. Washington was 
his friend, but Congress did not always advance the 
friends of the general-in-chief. Being recommended for 
major-general, the best Lewis received was brigadier. 


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He died while chasing the royal governor, Lord Dunmore, 
out of Virginia, in 1777; his death occurred near Roanoke. 

Two others, representing George Mason and Thomas 
Nelson, who are as little known to the general public as 
Gen. Andrew Lewis. George Mason was a real, an ideal 
Democrat. He wrote the bill of rights for Virginia which 
set aside the authority of the established church. He 
helped frame the Constitution of the United States, but 
wanted only one term of seven years for the President. 
He was a champion of the people, though by heredity a 
supporter of royalty, for his grandsire fought for King 
Charles against the Commons, and fled Worcester field to 
America. A great, burly man was George Mason, swar- 
thy, yet ruddy of face, an old-fashioned country squire in 
appearance, but 4 statesman far ahead of his time, which 
was in the days that Themas Paine declared “tried men’s 
souls.” 

Thomas Nelson was another of the neglected heroes. 
He impoverished a great estate and borrowed on his own 
credit, when that of the Continental Congress was worth- 
less, enough money to raise $2,000,000 for his country. 
He was never repaid. Continental Governor of Virginia 
and a soldier besides, he directed the fire of his cannon at 
the siege of Yorktown against his own home, supposed to 
be the headquarters of Cornwallis. It was battered down. 
Washington in general orders praised his zeal, but the 
government forgot this patriot. 

Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and John Mar- 
shall complete this group that surrounds the statue of 
Washington. The figures, according to the designer, 
are allegorical. 

Randolph Rogers describes the figures and what 
they represent in these words: 

First, Revolution, Patrick Henry: Represented with a 
sword in her right hand pointing with her left to a crown 
which is crushed under her foot. 

Second, Independence, Jefferson: Her eyes are turned 
toward heaven. In her right hand she grasps a portion of 
the chain which she has burst asunder and with her left 
-ghe casts a pcrtion of it at her feet. 

Third, Justice, Marshall: In her left hand she holds 
the bar of the scales which are resting on her lap and in 
her right hand a sword. 


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Fourth, Finance, Nelson: Her left hand is resting on 
a book and with her right hand she holds a cornucopia 
from which plenty is flowing. 

Fifth, Bill of Rights, Mason: Her left hand is resting 
on a scroll supposed to be the bill of rights. She leans 
forward with a drawn sword, resting on that document 
as if to defend it. 

Sixth, Colonial Campaigns, Lewis: In one hand she 
holds the palm of victory. Under ber feet are Indian 
arms—arrows, bows, etc. In her right hand she holds 
the axe and her head is decked with sheaves of wheat. 
symbolic of the peaceful settlement of the country and 
its agriculture. 

A narrow spiral stairway ascends within the statue 
opening directly benedth the horse on which Washington 
is seated. A person may stand upright beneath the horse. 

At the foot of the Washington Monument is the spot 
where the Hon. Jefferson Davis delivered his Inaugural 
address and took the “Oath of Office” as President of 
the Confederate States, February 22, 1862. 


State Library Building. 
(Hast End of Capitol Grounds.) 


The Library Building is occupied not only by the 
Virginia State Library but also by the Supreme Court 
of Appeals, with its library, and by various departments 
and agencies of the State government. The State 
Library has as its quarters all of the top floor. The 
State Library contains about 115,000 volumes. Many 
of the books are of great value, copies of them not being 
found in any other collection. Old charts and maps of 
every description and old newspapers are to be found here. 
One of the latter, bearing the date of July 26, 1776, 
contains the complete Declaration of Independence. 

One of the interesting documents in the library is 
Nathaniel Bacon’s note for five hundred dollars dated 
October 27, 1674. The signature is said to be the only- 
one of the ‘‘First Virginia Rebel,’’ known to be in exist- 
ence. 

In the library are, among other things of great 
interest and value, a proclamation of King James I., 
forbidding anyone, under the penalty of the law, to 
raise, keep, sell, or in any way have anything to do with 


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tobacco; an address of the Burgesses to Governor Spots- 
wood, signed by the speaker, Peter Randolph, dated 
November 9, 1710; and the marriage contract between 
Jefferson and Martha Skelton, signed by Thomas Jeff- 
erson and Francis Epps. Hundreds of autograph let- 
ters.of Virginia’s most famous sons are to be found here, 
including the last letter of ‘Stonewall’ Jackson to Gen. 
R. E. Lee. 

The visitor to the library should not fail to see the 
model of the Maison Carree, at Nimes, France, brought 


LIBRARY BU{LDING 


to this country by Thomas Jefferson and used ty him 
in designing the original Virginia capitol. The visitor 
should also see the written parols given by Lord Corn- 
wallis after his surrender at York Town. It is, however, 
impossible, because of the lack of space, to mention all 
the interesting documents or relics which are to be seen. 

Among the portraits which are in the library are 
those of Black Hawk, Simon Bolivar, Archibald Cary, 
William Claiborne, George- Rogers Clark, Henry Clay, 
Lord Culpeeper, John W, Daniel, Jefferson Davis, Lord 
Dunmore, Peter Francisco, William Branch Giles, Pat-. 


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rick Henry, Sam Houston, “‘Stonewall” Jackson, Thomas 
Jefferson, Joseph E. Johnston, Henry Lee, Richard 
Henry Lee, Robert Edward Lee, James Madison, John 
Marshall, George Mason, John Y. Mason, Matthew 
Fontaine Maury, James Monroe, Edmund Pendleton, 
George Perey, George Edward Pickett, Edmund Ran- 
dolph, John Randolph of Roanoke, Comte de Rocham- 
beau, Edmund Ruffin, James Alexander Seddon, Cap- 
tain John Smith, Alexander Spotswood, J. E. B. Stuart, 
John Taylor, Littleton Waller Tazewell, John Reuben 
Thompson, John Tyler, Sr., John Tyler, Jr., George 
Washington, and of nearly all the governors of Virginia, 
both as a colony and as a state. 

One of the most integesting portraits in the library 
is that of the Indian 
Princess Pocahontas, 
daughter of Powhatan, 
who saved the life of 
Captain John Smith. 
The picture is a copy 
of one painted from 
life, while Pocahontas 
was in England. The 
original hangs in Bar- 
ton Rectory, Norfolk, 
England, and was 
painted in 1616. Will- 
iam L. Sheppard was 
commissioned to make 
g a copy for the State 

savoeiks of sRebeeka miohey Prince | of Virginia. 

Be sharon Emperour of, seogtce an falta me Another very in- 

: teresting picture is the 

very large one of Lee 

POCAHONTAS and the principal gen- 

erals Of the Confeder- 

acy which attracts the attention of the visitor when he 

first alights from the elevator on coming to the third 
floor of the building. 

In this hall also there is a painting of the bombard- 
ment of Fort Sumter and a picture of Edmund Ruffin, 
who fired the first gun. : 

The Virginia State Library has the various depart- 
ments of work usual in libraries, and it has in addition a 


converted ant baptized in 
Wile Lo the “Wor Ment : 


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traveling library department and a department of ar- 
chives and history. The department of archives and 
history contains something over one million pieces of 
manuscript material relating to the history of Virginia 
and to those who made that history. Within the past 
year (1917) conditions in the department have made 
rapid and far-reaching strides for the better, with the 
result that the investigator now finds comfortable chairs 
and ample tables for work, while scientifically prepared 
indexes make it possible to produce immediately any 
desired document, if that document is included in any 
class of material which has been put in final order. 
This department is the great storehouse of records of 
military service of those Virginians who served in the 
colonial wars, the Revolution, the War of 1812, and the 
War between the States, and it is the desire ot the library 
officials that persons seeking membership in patriotic 
organizations, the eligibility rules of which require 
evidence of the service of an applicant’s ancestor in one 
or another of the wars mentioned should come to the 
library and personally consult the original document, 
If they do not happen to be in Richmond, however, 
they should write to the Librarian of the State Library 
for information, or to Morgan P. Robinson, State Ar- 
chivist, who is in immediate charge of this department. 


_ The Supreme Court room, on the second floor of the 
building, is well worth a visit because of the many por- 
traits of Virginia’s famous jurists that adorn its walls. 


In the basement of the building is what is known 
as the “Mineral and Timber Exhibit.’”? This exhibit in- 
cludes quarry products of Virginia granite, marble, onyx 
and sandstone, also iron, coal and coke; paper and pulp; 
woods of many kiuds; mounted birds, etc. From this, one 
will get a new conception of the variety and value of 
Virginia’s minerals and timbers. But in the large room 
in which the mineral and timber exhibit is to be found is 
also to be seen a large collection of Virginia’s natural 
history specimens, and there are also various relics of 
historical interest, especially to be noted being the 
first model of the McCormick reaper. 

There is also a forge donated by Capt. W. V. B. Til- 
son, Chatham Hill, Va., used in a forge established by his 
grand-father in 1730, one of the first in existence. And 


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there are many other before-the-war relics which add 
much incerest to this department. 


Governors’ Mansion. 
(Hast End of Capitol Square) 


Close to the State Library is the Governors’ Mansion. 
The first building, a two story frame structure, was 
erected in 1799, when Thomas Jefferson was Governor. 
The present mansion was built in 1811-’13. James Bar- 
bour was the first Governor who occupied it. Additions 


GOVERNOR’S MANSION 


were made to it in 1914. In 1860, the Prince of Wales, 
afterward King Edward VII. of Great Britain was en- 
tertained by Governor Letcher. President and Mrs. 
Hayes, President Cleveland, President McKinley, Presi- 
dent Roosevelt and President Taft have been guests in 
the mansion of the Governors of Virginia. 


CITY HALL. 


(Broad Street between 10th and 11th.) 
(See first page of cover.) 

Richmond City Hall is decidedly modern and im- 
posing, yet not above displaying a town clock in its 
tower. The building is of Virginia Granite and cost 
$1,500,000. The tower is 180feet high. The corner stone 
was laid on April 5, 1887, and the building was ready for 


use in 1894. 
Perhaps the most interesting feature of the City 


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Hall is the famous Police Court, presided over for years 
by the celebrated Justice Crutchfield, sometimes called 
“Justice John” or the Cadi. His original methods of 
dispensing justice have given him a national reputation. 
In this building are the city offices, courts, records, and 
departments of city government. 


POST OFFICE BUILDING. 
(Corner Tenth and Main Streets, South of the Capitol.) 


The present Post Office was enlarged in 1918, at a 
cost of about a quarter of a million. Recently $450,000 
has been paid for an adjoining plot, for the further en- 
largement of the building. 

A tablet at the southeast corner of the building bears 
the following inscription: ‘‘This wall was once a part of 
the Treasury building of the Confederate States of America. 
In it were the offices of the President, the Secretary of State, 
the Secretary of the Treasury and the Treasurer of the Con- 
federate government. 

“Here, too, President Jefferson Davis, who had been 
indicted May 8, 1866, under the charge of treason against 
the United States, appeared either in person or by counsel 
before the circuit court of the United States, demanding 
trial,—first on June 5, 1866, and in all seven times, each 
time trial was postponed upon request of the Government, 
and the case was ended forever, without trial, by formal 
dismissal, Feb. 15, 1867. 

“This tablet is placed by the Confederate Memorial 
Literary Society, A. D. 1918. 


MUSEUMS. 
Confederate Museum. 
(Hast Clay Street Corner of Twelfth.) 


Almost within a block of the Capitol Square is the 
Confederate Museum, once the White House of the Con- 
federacy where Jefferson Davis lived through most of the 
days of the bitter war, and where his daughter, Winnie, 
the “Daughter of the Confederacy,’ was born. It was 
from the east balcony of this building that Joe, the 
little son of the President of the Confederate States, fell 
and was killed. 


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This house was built in 1819 and was used as a private 
residence until 1862, when it was purchased by the city 
of Richmond and was offered as a gift to Jefferson Davis 
for his residence when he came to Richmond as President 
of the Confederacy. Mr. Davis declined to accept it as 
a gift. The Confederate Government then rented it 
for the “Executive Mansion” of the Confederate States. 
Mr. Davis lived in it until the evacuation of Richmond. 

On the morning of April 3, 1865, General Godfrey 
Weitzel, in command of the Federal troops, upon entering 


CONFEDRATE MUSEUM 


the city, made this house his headquarters. It was thus 
occupied by the United States Government during the 
five years Virginia was under military rule, and called 
“District No. 1.” 

In the present “Georgia” Room, a day or two after 
the evacuation, Mr.. Lincoln was received. 

After the war the building was turned into a public 
school, but. it deteriorated so rapidly that the patriotic 
women determined to restore it and turn it into a memo- 
rial building and museum. A room. is set apart in the 
building. for each’ state of the Confederacy,, and: thus 
each state is represented by relics that commemorate 


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the deeds done by its sons and daughters during the war. 
In the court-yard of the museum is an anchor chain from 
the Cumberland sloop-of-war sunk by the Merrimac, 
or Virginia, and propeller shaft of the Virginia. 

The museum is open from 9 o’clock A. M. to 5 P. M. 
On Saturdays from 9 A.M. to 2. P.M. In July and 
August open from 9 A. M. to 2. P. M. Admission daily 
25 cents. It is in charge of the Confederate Memorial 
Literary Society. 


Valentine Museum and Studio. 
(Hast Clay Street, Corner of Eleventh.) 


The Valentine Museum on East Clay and Eleventh 
Streets, an elegant old residence, comprises a collection 
of casts, paintings, prints, books dating from 1474, and 
works of colonial and revolutionary times. On the 


VALENTINE MUSEUM 


second floor, where a whole room is devoted to it, is the 
original cast of the recumbent statue of General Lee at 
Lexington, Virginia. Its distinctive feature is its ensemble 
of Virginia and North Carolina Indian Archaeology. 

The building was erected in 1812. The interior of 
the house impresses one with its magnificent Florentine 
marble mantels, spiral stairway which is the shape of 
a painter’s palate, solid mahogany doors, the carving 
of the balustrade, handsome mirrors, etc. 

On the upper floor are hung clubs and spears from 
the Solomon Islands of the Pacific. Pipes and pieces of 
pottery from the hands of Indians may be seen. 

The department of sculpture is in the basement. 


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The Studio of E. V. Valentine, the eminent sculptor, 
is at 807 East Leigh Street, a short distance from the 
Museum. 


Confederate Memorial Institute. 


(Boulevard, between Kensington and Stuart Avenue .) 


The Confederate Memorial Institute, also known as 
the Battle Abbey, is on the property of the Soldiers’ 
Home. The grounds consist of five and one-half acres of 
land. The building is striking in appearance and attracts 


CONFEDRRATE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE 


attention from the peculiarity of its architecture. It is 
built of sandstone, is short and wide, has no windows 
except one on each side of the door. ‘There are four sand- 
stone pillars at the entrance, and the doors are made of 
bronze. The building cost $115,000. In it will be kept 
war relics. It will also have a library in which will be 
found histories of the South. 

To Charles Broadway Rouss is given the credit of 
first conceiving the idea of this building, and he has given 
$100,000 to help maintain it. 


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CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS’ HOME. » > 
(Boulevard, between Stuart and Grove Avenues.)' 


The veterans are all dressed in gray and each has a 
“Cross of Honor.’ There is a long pavilion with a porch 
on each side. In this pavilion some of the veterans sleep, 
others sleep in the cottages. A hospital is provided, and 
doctors and nurses wait on the sick. There is also a hall 
for amusement, called Randolph Hall. 

Many interesting relics can be seen here, one of the 
most interesting is “Old Sorrel,” ‘Stonewall’ Jackson’s 


SOLDIERS’ HOME 


horse, which was mounted and has been given a place in 
a glass case. The horse was 36 years old when he died. 
Jackson was fatally wounded while on “Old Sorrel.” 
Several cannon are on the grcunds, one of which was used 
at the “Defense of Fort Sumter.”’ 

Confederate flags wave over the place. 


__ CHURCHES. 


| : Ae St. John’s Church. : 
(East Broad, Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Streets.) , 


_ St. John’s Church: was built under the supervision 
of Richard Randolph, of Curl’s Neck. The land wds 
donated by. William Byrd and the church was opened for 
worship June 10, 1741. It is said that Randolph was 
paid 347 pounds, 10 shillings for building the church. © In 


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1749, Rev. William Stith, the first pastor, asked help of 
George II. and received in response a surplice, a pulpit, 
a Bible, a prayer-book, some cushions and a cloth for the 
reading desk. : 

In the cemetery surrounding St. John’s church sleep 
many of the old settlers of Virginia but what makes this 
humble little edifice famous is the fact that here at a 
convention held on March 20, 1775, Patrick Henry in- 
spired the delegates with words that awakened the world: 
“Give me liberty or give me death.” Colonel Edward 
Carrington broke the silence that followed. by exclaim- 
ing, “‘Right here I wish to be buried.” 


ST. JOHN'S CHURCH 


The delegates had gathered in the little church to 
discuss whether they should treat with King George, 
arbitrate, or fight for their rights. George Mason was 
there, preaching radicalism that must have won the 
heart of that parlor-anarchist, Thomas Jefferson, and 
caused John Marshall, conservative on questions of rights 
and property, to view him with alarm. George Wash- 
ington, tall and dignified, walked about the graveyard, at 
times conversing with Thomas Nelson or his old com- 
panion in arms, Andrew Lewis. They had fought the 
French at Fort Necessity, had been captured and released 
together. They had rallied the Virginia riflemen in the 
terrible defeat of Braddock and saved the remnant of his 
army from destruction. They had fought for the king 
and now they were waiting for the word to fight against 


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him. Edmund Randolph, that stern patriot, was of the 
company, yet when the news of the meeting of these 
men went abroad it was the figure of Patrick Henry, that 
dominated the scene in St. John’s church; Patrick Henry, 
the little lawyer representative from Lcuisa County, the 
actor, the dramatic pleader at the bar of justice. 

In the little old church now may be seen a bronze 
tablet placed near the pew from which Patrick Henry 
arose to make his immortal speech. It was placed there 
in 1911. Virginia had waited more than 100 years to do 
honor to that speech of herimmortalson. Patrick Henry 
was born in Studley, Hanover County, 16 miles north of 
Richmond and about three miles south of the Pamunkey 
River, and died at Red Hill, Va., in 1799. 

There are many ancient tombstones. The oldest is 
that of Rev. Robert E. Rose, dated 1751. Among the 
graves is that of Elizabeth Arnold Poe, mother of Edgar 
Allan Poe. There is a plan started to raise money to 
erect a monument to her memory. 


Monumental Church. 
(East Broad, between Twelfth and Fourteenth Streets.) 


Monumental Episcopal Church is built on the site of 
Richmond’s first theatre, which gave the name Theatre 
Square to the locality. The first playhouse was built in 
1786. It was there that the convention met in 1788, which 
ratified the Constitution of the United States. Among 
those who made that convention famous, were Madison, 
Monroe Henry, Mason and Pendleton. 

The building being destroyed by fire in 1802, a 
second theatre was erected, only to be burned December 
26, 1811, when seventy-two persons, including Governor 
William Smith, lost their lives. The play was “‘A Bleed- 
ing Nun” and the audience numbered six hundred forty- 
three. Oil lamps not only lighted the theatre, but were 
used in the scenery of the play. In setting one scene a 
large chandelier had to be utilized and in putting this 
in place, a jerk of a cord sent a lamp against the flimsy 
structure. There was only one narrow exit, and in the 
mad rush many lives were lost. The strongest as well as 
the weakest, neither one had little chance, although more 
than one heroic deed is recorded. Lieutenant Gibbon of 
the United States Navy was seated in a box with John 


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Lynch and Mrs. Lynch, Mrs. Joseph Gallego, Mrs. 
Taylor Braxtcn, rormer United States Senator Venable 
Mrs. Gibbcn, the mother ot ihe naval officcr, and Miss 
Sallie Conyers. Lieutenant Gibbon and Miss Conyers 
were supposed to be engaged. He was heard to say: 
“Lynch, leave Sallie to me. She is light and I am strong 
encugh to carry her. You can save some one else.’’ They 
were overeccme by the smoke ana died in each cther’s 
arms. Mr. Lynch saved Mrs Gibbon, the rest of the party 
perished. It is said that Governor Smith made his way 
outside, but returned to the burning building in an en- 
deavor to save his small son. The disaster sent the city 
into mourning. The City Council appointed a committee 


catseattce’ eae epsgest ings oi pees enaet ey el ARE Att A TES gee At ttre eet eer 


MONUMENTAL CHURCH 


to collect the remains of the victims and to deposit their 
ashes in an urn for burial. The stores were closed for 
eight hours. The council also forbade any theatrical 
performance for four months under penalty of $6.66 per 
hour. A mass meeting was held at the Capitol, the 
Mayor presiding. A committee was appointed to obtain 
by a house to house canvass the names of the victims, 
January lst was set apart as a day of fasting and humili- 
ation. Sermons were preached by Rev. John Buchanan 
of the Episcopal church and Rev. John Blair of the 
Presbyterian church. All citizens wore crepe for a month. 
Judge John Marshall was made chairman of a committee 
to decide upon a memorial. Part of the site was turned 
into a mammoth tomb in which the remains of all the 
victims were buried and over it was raised a shaft on which 
the names of the dead were inscribed. As a memorial 


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Monumental Church was erected from a fund subscribed 
by the citizens, aided by an appropriation from the city 
government. It was completed in 1814. 

Governor Smith had only held office thirty-one 
days when he met his death. He had succeeded Governor 
James Monroe, who had accepted the office of Secretary 
of State under President Madison. 

Among the regular worshippers in this church were 
Benjamin Watkins Leigh, one of Virginia’s foremost Ju- 
rists; Wiliam Wirt, who aided in the prosecution of Aaron 
Burr, whose trial was held in the room north of the 
Rotunda in the Capitol building: George Hay, son-in- 
law of James Monroe; John Marshall, the great chief 
justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and 
Matthew Fontaine Maury, the great Path Finder of the 
Sea. Gen. Leonidas Polk, bishop and soldier, was once 
assistant rector of the Monumental Church. 


St. Paul’s Church. 
(East Grace Street, Corner of Ninth.) 


Just west of the Capitol is St. Paul’s Church, where 
President Davis and General Lee were nd during the 
war. It was while the Pres- 
ident of the Confederacy ge ae s 
was in the church on Sun- 
day, April 2, 1865, that he 
received the telegram from 
General Lee in Petersburg, 
telling him that Richmond 
must be evacuated. The 
pews of: President Davis 
and General Lee are mark- 
ed, and on the west wall is 
a bronze tablet in memory 
of Winnie Davis whose 
funeral was held from St. 
Paul’s church. Just recent- 
ly ‘this church has been 
handsomely decorated. 
Nearly everything in the 
church isa memorial. The 
two memoria! windows for ee 
RR. E., Lee. are said to. be ST. PAUL’S CHURCH 


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the handsomest in America. All of the memorials are 
Interesting and handsome. The panel in the rear of 
the chancel made in glass mosaic represents the Lord’s 
Supper, and is a memorial to General Jos. Reed Anderson. 
Strangers will find this historic church one of the most 
interesting places in the city. 


Sacred Heart Cathedral. 
(Laurel Street and Floyd Ave., facing Monroe Park.) 

Sacred Heart Cathedral is a monument to the gener- 
osity of the late Mrs. Thomas Fortune Ryan. The Cathe- 
dral while not as large 
nor yet perhaps as mag- 
nificent as some of the 
more famous ones, is one 
of the most beautiful in 
America. The interior 
decorations are especial- 
ly elaborate, the color 
scheme brilliant yet har- 
monious, being extreme- 
ly effective. Mural work 
occupies a conspicuous 
part and a series of 
pictures representing the 


De 6 ; stations of the cross are 

: Beate ee Hae oe fF INASLETPleCOSiny Lhe. Cor 
f- SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL ner stone of the Cathe- 
dral was laid in 1903. 


‘Tt was finished in 1910. “The cost of the building is plac- 
ed at $500,000. 


Congregation Beth Ahabah. 
( House of Love.) 


Was organized in May, 1841. It first occupied a rented 
hall on Marshall Street, but soon built its own house of 
worship on Eleventh Street, between Marshall and Clay 
Streets. In 1881 it built a larger synagogue on the same 
site. December, 1909, it dedicated the present splendid 
and spacious temple on West Franklin Street, facing 


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Ryland—one of the handsomest structures in the city. 
This is of Greek architecture, octagonal in shape, and of 
gray pressed brick with trimming of Indiana sandstone. 

Its main auditorium seats 1,060 people. It is very 
beautifully decorated and furnished, the ark and the organ 
being especially noteworthy. 

The congregation, made up of the leading Jewish 
citizens, numbers about three hundred and fifty families. 
Beth Ahabah has always stood for the best and finest 


BETH AHABAH TEMPLE 


ideals both of individual and communal life. It has 
offered its synagogue for use by Christian congregations 
in times of stress, and the offer has been accepted in the 
same spirit of brotherhood in which it has Deen tendered. 
Many of the leading Christian ministers have spoken 
from its pulpit. The services are held every Friday even- 
ing and Sunday morning and on all Jewish holidays. 


First Baptist Church. 
(Corner of Twelfth and Broad Streets.) 


This is one of the oldest churches in the city and has 
one of the largest congregations. The basement of this 
church was used during the war between the States, as 
a place to which were brought the wounded and dying 
from the Seven Pines battlefield. 


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The First African Baptist Church. 
(Corner of College and Broad Streets.) 


The First African Baptist Church was erected in 
1780, rebuilt in 1870. The former building served for 
many notable purposes. 

The Virginia Convention, in 1829 and 1830, assem- 
bled there from December Ist to January 15th. The 
meeting in 1865, after the failure of the Peace Conference 
at Fortress Monroe was also held there. Many other 
interesting events have taken place in this church. 


ASSOCIATIONS. 


WM. C."A- 
(Grace and Seventh Streets. ) 


The Young Men’s Christian Association is elegant 
in its appointments and thoroughly equipped with the 
most modern conveniences. 


¥ W.. CoA. 
(Central Building No. 6, Fifth Street.) 


A modern, well east new building has been 

, erected on Fifth St. The 
interior of the building is 
attractive, light and spa- 
cious; to the Jeft of the 
wide entrance hall is the 
library with its big, open 
fireplace, easy chairs, 
writing desks, books and 
magazines. It affords a 
most comfortable and 
attractive place. The 
building is thoroughly 
equipped with the most 
up-to-date conveniences, 
including a gymnasium, 
swimming pool, dressing 
rooms, lockers and show- 
ers. 


¥. W.C. A, BUILDING 


Were Goal. .U, 


The Central W. C. T. U. is the oldest union in the 
State. It was organized by Francis Willard in 1882. 


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There are ten other unions in the city. The young 
woman’s branch is known as the ‘‘Y’S.”’ 


RisR.- YooMs C.cA; 
(Near Main Street Station.) 


This building which was erected in 1907 is equipped 
with all modern conveniences. Its dormitory is provided 
with more than seventy beds. Its reading rooms, baths, 
swimming pool, gymnasium and _ all other departments 
are up-to-date in every particular. 


ARMORIES. 
Richmond Blues’ Armory. 
(Hast Marshall Street Corner Sixth.) 


Although the armory of the Richmond Light In-. 
fantry Blues is one of the most modern of Richmond’s 
buildings, the organization itself is one of the oldest in the 
United States. Their first meeting was held in the old 
bell tower. The first service rendered was in 1800, when 
negro slaves whose leader was General Gabriel, planned to 
fire Richmond. The Blues protected the city. Their 
new building is at the corner of Sixth and Marshall Streets. 

The original company was organized in 1789, Captain 
William Richardson commanding. It was then called the 
Richmond Light Infantry. In 1793 the company was 
re-organized and became the Richmond Light Infantry 
Blues with Captain Richardson still in command. He 
remained at the head of the company for twenty years. 
The company, recently mounted, has now held its organi- 
zation for more than 120 years, and has ever occupied a 
prominent part in the military and social life of the Cap- 
itol. 


First Virginia Regiment Armory. 
(Hast Marshall Street Corner Seventh.) 


The opening celebration of the First Virginia Regi- 
ment Armory was given May 29, 1914. 

The Drill Hall is 90 feet by 172 feet, and has seating 
capacity of 6,540. The first floor contains company 
rooms, Officers’ quarters, company quartermasters’ quar- 
ters, and lockers for four infantry companies, for a field 
hospital corps, signal corps, and a battalion hospital corps, 
besides officers for Major, Adjutant and Battalion Quarter- 
master. In the basement is the gymnasium, adjoining 
which are the locker rooms and shower baths. The Rifle 
Range is especially unique. It has capacity-of eight men 


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shooting at once, and its concealed lighting, electric sig- 
nals, range telephone, smoke exhaust fans, ‘‘sail shell’’ 
targets, movable shooting stand, observers’ platform, and 
steel lined room all serve to make it one of the best 
equipped indoor ranges in the country. 

The First Virginia Volunteers Infantry was organized 
May 1, 1851, in Richmond with Walter Gwynn as the 
colonel. In 1861 it was called out in defense of the State. 
It participated at the First Manassas, Fall’s Church, 
Seven Pines, etc. It was reorganized in 1871, and par- 
ticipated in the Yorktown Centennial in 1881. 

The new building is Gothic architecture, and has a’ 
military appearance. The large stone balls that are 
placed near this building attract the attention of passers- 
by. They were brought from Constantinople, and it is 
said were used as ballast. They were sent as a gift to 
some one in America, and on Reaching Norfolk were 
not accepted. They were then brought to Richmond and 
placed in front of a private residence on Marshall Street. 
When the Armory was built they were placed in their 
present position. 

The Howitzer’s Armory. 
(Located at 616 N. Eighth Street.) 

The Richmond Howitzers were first organized, Nov- 
vember 9, 1859, George W. Randolph, of Richmond, was 
the first captain. The first service rendered by them was 
at Harper’s Ferry, Va., where they were sent to aid in 
quelling the John Brown raid. 

The first meeting after the war was held across from 
the Post Office and they drilled with wooden guns. They 
had four brass field guns that were loaned by the govern- 
ment. | 

They have two buildings, one a hall for drills, with 
office rooms, etc.; the other building is an athletic building 
and is equipped with swimming pool, baths, gymnasium 
and reading rooms. 

The new addition now being erected at an outlay 
of $200,000 will give a riding hall 100 x 200 feet, alsc stable 
tacilities for 72 animals, a blacksmith shop, veterinary 
cffice and sleeping quarters for attendants. There will 
be all modern improvements for an armory 1o house a 
battery of field artillery. When finished the building will 
be one of the most modern and best appointed armories 
in the United States, the buildings and grounds repre- 
senting a capital outlay of about a half million dollars. 


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. 


THE JEFFERSON HOTEL. 
(Corner Franklin and Jefferson Streets.) 


This hotel presents every inducement of the summer 
hostelries of the North, and the winter resorts of the 
South. Itis a most beautiful and luxurious hotel, palatial 
inequipment. Its guests are accorded all that is embodied 


JEFFERSON HOTEL 


in a traditional Southern welcome. The Palm room is 
particularly beautiful. In the center of this is a magnifi- 
cent statue of Jefferson. This statue is of peculiar interest, 
for even the costume of the figure was modeled from the 
original garments worn by the great statesman. 


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HISTORIC HOMES, BUILDINGS AND SITES. 


Besides the Jefferson Davis mansion, now the Con- 
federate museum, the chief houses of historic interest still 
standing are those of Robert E. Lee, John Marshall, 
Jacob Ege, and the Masons’ Hall. 


The House in Which Commodore Maury Lived. 


A tablet on this house at 1105 E. Clay Street has the 
following inscription: 

“In this house Matthew Fontaine Maury, LL. D., 
U.S. N., C. S. N., tnvented the submarine electrical tor- 
pedo, 1861-1862. This stone is placed by the Confederate 
Memorial Literary Society, A. D. 1910.” 

... Commodore Maury, Chief of 
-. the Seacoast Harbor and River 
Me, Defenses of the South, had 
4 temporary quarters in a room 
3) in the third story of this house. 
4 It was here that he made his 
1 initial experiments for subma- 


f rine defenses by exploding 

} minute charges of gun-powder 

in a wooden wash-tub of water, 

Bera the genesis of submarine war- 

Mere fare that is working such 
m havoc today. 

All the old mariners of the 
19th century remember his 
great work rendered to science 
and navigation while he was an 

MAURY RESIDENCE officer of the U. S. Navy in 

charge of the Naval Obser- 
vatory, Washington, D. C., where he drew his wind 
and current charts, wrote his Sailing Directions, pro- 
jected steam lanes for crossing the oceans, recommended 
the establishment of a training school for naval cadets at 
Annapolis. He originated and urged the founding of the 
present Weather Bureau now in Washington, directed 
the deep sea soundings and discovered the Telegraphic 


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Plateau between New Foundland and Ireland on which 
he recommended the telegraph cable which he laid. 

He received testimonials and decorations from every 
maritime nation except the United States, for his con- 
tributions to science. 

Through the efforts of Mrs. E. E. Moffitt, of Rich- 
mond, the Matthew Fontaine Maury Association has 
been organized and at a meeting of the State Board of 
Education, on June 27, 1916, a resolution was adopted 
that January 14th of each year should be observed as 
“Maury Day” in the public schools, and plans are being 
perfected to erect a bronze statue in this city to the mem- 
ory of this great benefactor of all scafaring nations. 


John Marshall Home. 
(Corner Marshall and Ninth Streets.) 


The home of Chief Justice Marskall stands on 
a green at the corner of Ninth and Fast Marshall Streets, 
with the large high schccl named in hencr of the great 


JOHN MARSHALL HOME 


Virginia jurist as a background. ‘The hcuse, a two-story 
dwelling, was given, on July 20, 1911, by the council of 
the city of Richmond to the Association for the Preserva- 
tion of Virginia Antiquitics. It was repaired and opened 
by the Associaticn in 1913. There are a great many inter- 
esting relics stored in the house, among which are John 
Marshall’s knee buckles, his tortoise shell spectacles, his 
black satin robe of office as Chief Justice of the Supreme 
Court of the United States. A photograph of the ‘Lib- 
erty Bell” which was tolled for his funeral; a candlestand 


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which held the candles which were used while he read to 
his invalid wife. The Chief Justice lived here from 1795 
to 1835. The original deed to the property, which was 
drawn up in 1789, in Marshall’s own handwriting, is 
framed and hangs on the wall. The handsome silver 
frontlet which was attached to the velvet crown, the 
gift from Charles II. of England to the Queen of the 
Pamunkey Indians, is also here. John Marshall was born 
in Fauquier County, Va., in 1755, and was the eldest of 
fifteen children. He was Secretary of State to President 
Adams, who appointed him Chief Justice of the Supreme 
Court. Such prominence was given him by virtue of this 
office that it is not generally known that he was a revo- 
lutionary soldier at the age of nineteen. He died in 
Philadelphia, July 6, 1835. 

In 1866 Gov. Henry A. Wise rented and moved into 
_ the house, and lived there for several years. ‘The house 
is open daily to visitors from 9 A. M. to 3. P. M. Ad- 
mission 25 cents. 


Home of George Wythe. 
(Grace Street, Near Fifth.) 

“Site of the Home of George Wythe, signer of the Dec- 
laration of Independence.’’ The above tablet was placed 
by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia An- 
tiquities, 1887. 

Wythe was born in Elizabeth City County, Va., in 
1726. He was a member of the House of Burgesses, 
author of Remonstrance to House of Commons on pro- 
posed Stamp Act; delegate to the Continental Congress 
from Virginia; Speaker of the House of Delegates, and 
one of the Judges of Chancery Court of Virginia, and sole 
Chancellor on the reorganization of the court of Equity 
for more than twenty years. He died in 1806, and is 
buried near the east door of St. John’s Church. 


Site of Samuel Preston Moore’s House. 
(200 West Grace Street.) 

This is where the Surgeon-Genera’ of the Confederate 
States of America lived with his family, 1863-1865. 

This place is marked with the following inscription: 

“Site of the House in which Samuel Preston Moore, 
Surgeon General Confederate States of America, Lived 
from 1863 to 1865. This Tablet is placed by the Confed- 
erate Memorial Literary Society, A. D. 1911.’ . : 


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Home of General Robert E. Lee 


(707 East Franklin Street.) 


The home of Robert E. Lee is a three-story brick 
structure and quite modern in appearance. The Virginia 
Historical Society, which was organized in 1831, with John 
Marshall as its first president, has its home and library in 


LEE’S HOME 


this building and a priceless collection of rare books and 
manuscripts and valuable portraits. 

Lee was born in Stratford, Westmoreland County, 
Va. January 19 1807; he died in Lexington, Va., October 
12, 1870, and was buried under the chapel of the Washing- 
ton and Lee University at that place. 


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Early Home of Poe. 
(Corner of Fifth and Main.) 


The early home of Edgar Allan Poe was on the south- 
east corner of Fifth and Main Streets. It is also said that 
the poet lived at one time on Church Hil!.. On the South- 
east corner of Main and Fifteenth Streets was the office 
where Poe edited “The Southern Literary Messenger.” 


Site of the House Where J. E. B. Stuart Died. 


(210 West Grace Street.) 


General J. EK. B. Stuart who was mortally wounded 
at Yellow Tavern, was brought to Richmond and died 
the next day. The house on the site is marked with a 
tablet bearing this inscription 

Stile of the house in which Maj. Gen’l J. E. B. Stuart, 
C.S. A., died May 12, 1864. 

“T must save the women of Richmond,” 

This tabet is placed by the Confederate Memorial 
Interary Society, A. D. 1911. | 


Van Lew Home. 
(Site on Grace Sireet, near Corner of Twenty-fourth.) 


The Adams mansion was bought by the Van Lews 
and was the headquarters of the Federal secret service 
in Richmond. Miss Van Lew, an eccentric little old lady, 
while visiting the sick and wounded soldiers in the mili- 
tary hospitals naturally became friendly with the officers. 
She picked up valuable information which she forwarded 
to the Federal government in Washington by trusted 
servants and agents between the lines of the armies. 
More than one Federal prisoner who had tunnelled out of 
Libby prison made his way to the Van Lew home and 
was hidden there until a chance was found to smuggle 
him out of the city. Although suspected several times it 
was not known until after the war and the death of Miss 
Van Lew that she had been in correspondence with the 
Federal government and even with President Lincoln 
himself. She was the most trusted Federal agent in the 
Confederate Capital. 

She was made Post Mistress of Richmond by General 
Grant as a reward for her services and served as such 


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during the eight years of General Grant’s administration 
as President. This home is now supplanted by a modern 
school building. 


Jacob Ege Home. 
(Hast Main Street.) 


Jacob Ege was a celebrated silversmith. He made 
the silver jewels still worn by the officers of Manchester 
Lodge No. 14, and Richmond Rando!ph Lodge No. 19, 
Masons, and was a past master of Lodge No. 19, serving 
in 1795. 

His home is an old low stone building with a steep 
roof from which gable windows slant out. A sign board 
declares that it was once the headquarters of Washington, 


WASHINGTON’S REPUTED HEADQUARTERS 


but according to local tradition, it was more correctly 
the headquarters of Lafayette during his stay in Rich- 
mond and Washington may have visited him here. 
James Monroe when President was entertained in the old 
Ege home. Both President Washington and General 
Lafayette were personal friends of the old German who 
came to America in the early part of the eighteenth 
century, and built his home after the style of the then 
fatherland in Main Street. 


Bird-in-Hand Tavern. 
(N. W. Corner of Twenty-fifih and Main Streets.) 


Bird-in-Hand was one of the oldest taverns. The site 
is not far from the old Stone House. 


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Oldest Masons’ Hall. 
(Franklin Street, near Nineteenth.) 

This is the oldest Masons’ Hall in the United States. 
The foundation was laid in 1785. The corner stone be- 
ing laid by James Mercer, Grand Master, assisted by 
Edmund Randolph, Governor of Virginia. General 
Lafayette was conspicuous in Richmond during the early 


aia a ea aaa Se: 


OLD MASONIC HALL 


history of the nation. He was given a reception in the 
hall. Lafayette is said to have keen a notable figure 
in Masonry. 

Lafayette visited Lodge No. 19 in 1824, and his sig- 
nature can still be seen on the register, also that of his 
son, Geo. Washington Lafayette. A session of Masons 
was held just after the evacuation of Richmond in 1865 
and sixty-two Federal soldiers attended. A cavalryman 
forgot his sword which is still there. 


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Chief Justice Marshall was Master of Richmond 
Lodge, No. 10, and a trustee of the hall, and in that 
capacity insured the hall against fire in the old Mutual 
Assurance Society of Richmond in 1804, and the insurance 
is still in force in the same company. He was also Grand 
Master of Virginia and presided once at the Grand Lodge 
which for years met in this hall. 

The hall was used as a military hospital during the 
war of 1812, and the daughters of the war of 1812 of the 
city of Richmond has commemorated this fact by placing 
a tablet on the walls, telling of such use. The building 
is in splendid condition and is owned and occupied by 
Richmond Randolph Lodge, No. 19, which has occupied it 
continuously since 1787. At the southwest corner of 
Broad and Adams Streets 1s the handsome new Masonic 
Temple. 


Bell Tavern. 
(Fifteenth and Main Streets.) 


The Dorothy Payne Madison chapter National 
Society United States Daughters of 1812, unveiled and 
presented to the City of Richmond a tablet which was 
inserted in the walls of the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail- 
way Station, which now covers the ground on which stood 
the ancient Tavern. 

The unveiling took place on Dec. 4th, 1914. This 
Tavern was used as a recruiting station for Virginia troops 
during the war of 1812. It took its name from Nathan 
Bell, who owned the property. 

Among those present at the unveiling ceremonies 
were a great-granddaughter and a_ great-great-great- 
granddaughter. In 1784 Gen. George Washington and 
Gen. Lafayette visited Richmond and a dinner was given 
them at Bell Tavern. They were escorted by the Revo- 
lutionary officers and soldiers, the militia, officers of State 
and town, and citizens. 


Castle Thunder. 
(North side of Cary, between 18th and 19th Streets.) 


This place was used as a receptacle for persons 
committed upon serious charges and deserters from the 
Federal army. Capt. D. Callahan was commandant of 
~Castle Thunder Post. 

Ls It is said that Mary and Molly Bell of Southwest 
Virginia, according to the diary of Edmund Ruffin, served 


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in male attire for two years in the Confederate army 
without their sex being found out, and were brought to 
Richmond and detained in Castle Thunder until they 
could be turned over to their relatives. One reached the 
rank of corporal and the other that of sergeant. 


Johnston Memorial Tablet. 
(2615 H. Broad Street.) 


This tablet was set in the pavement in front of the 
above residence by the Confederate Memorial Literary 
Society. It marks the site of the house to which General 
Joseph E. Johnston was taken after being wounded during 
the battle of Seven Pines and where he was nursed back 
to health. 


First Bank of Richmond. 


On Bank Street, at the east side of the Post Office 
on a narrow brick wall is the following inscription, ‘The 
Bank of Virginia, First Richmond Bank, Established on 
this site, 1804.’ Hence the name Bank Street. 


Spottswood Hotel Site. 
(Southeast Corner of Main and Eighth Streets.) 


Spottswood Hotel was in Tan Row block; the name, 
“Tan Row,” was on account of a Tannery that had been 
located there. The hotel occupied about half of the block 
on the south side of the street. The war post office of 
the Confederate States was in this hotel. It was de- 
stroyed by fire December 25, 1870. 

Lee stopped at this hotel after resigning from West 
Point. It was Davis’ stopping place when he was in 
Richmond for his trial. General Sherman’s headquarters 
were also there when his army passed through Richmond 
to Washington. 


Old Exchange Hotel Site. 
(Corner Fourteenth and Franklin Streets.) 


This was one of the first hotels of note built in 
Richmond. It was remodeled, refurnished and reopened 
in October, 1865. It was the stopping place of Charles . 
Dickens and his wife in March, 1842. The Prince of 
Wales and Lord Napier were guests at this hotel. In 


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1849, Edgar Allan Poe lectured there, and it was the 
home of Jenny Lind while she was in Richmond, in 1850. 


Site of First Art Academy. 


A bronze tablet placed upon the building of the 
Retreat for the Sick Hospital commemorates the fact 
that near the site of that building stood the ‘‘Richmond 
Academy in which, in 1788, met the Convention which 
ratified the Constitution of the United States.” The 
Academy here referred to bore the official title of “The 
Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts of America, founded 
in Richmond, Virginia in 1786.” Its Founder-President 
was the Chevalier Alexandre Marie Quesnay de Beaure- 
paire, a young French officer in the American Army of 
the Revolution. He returned to France in 1788. The 
entire square now occupied by the Monumental Church, 
the old Medical College building, and the Hospital 
above mentioned was originally known as “Academy 
Square.” The institution was the first Art Academy 
founded in America. 


Eagle Tavern Site. 
(Southside of Main, between 12th and 13th Streets.) 


Eagle Tavern was builtin 1798. In 1807, Aaron Burr 
was at Eagle Tavern. In 1809, a public dinner was given 
Thomas Jefferson at that place, and, in 1824, a ball was 
given there in honor of Lafayette and his son Geo. W. 
Lafayette. , 


Ballard Hotel. 
(Corner of 14th and Franklin Streets.) 


This old house is. still standing. Ex-President 
Tyler died in his room there on January 18, 1861. It is 
now occupied by the Associated Charities. 


Marshall Theatre Site. 
GS. EH. Corner of 7th and Broad Streets.) 


This theatre was first built through the influence 
of Chief Justice Marshall about 1817; it was burned 
and rebuilt during the war. Jt is said to be the only 
brick building erec'ted during that time. The most fa- 
mous actors of the day were seen there. 


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Ford’s Hotel Site. 


(Eleventh Street, between Broad and Capitol.) 


General Edward Johnson died in his room at Ford’s 
Hotel, March 1, 1878. His remains lay in state in the 
rotunda of the Capitol till March 4. 

The city has purchased this property, which is 
just east of the City Hall, and plans have been submit- 
ted for city offices and an auditorium to be erected there. 
This, however, has not been definitely settled. 


St. Claire Hotel Site. 
(Northwest Corner of Grace and Ninth.) 


This was one of the most popular hotels of the city. 
The magnificent Richmond Hotel has replaced it. 


Swan Tavern Site. 


(North side Broad St., between 18th and 19th.) 


Thomas Jefferson stopped at Swan Tavern in Octo- 
ber, 1809, and the officers of the Nineteenth Regiment 
gave a dinner i in his honor at that place. Aaron Burr was 
confined in the annex during his trial for treason, 1807. 


Goddin Tavern Site. 


On Brook Avenue, going north, just before the 
branch is crossed is the site of the old Goddin Tavern, 
which was afterwards used as a hospital for Confederate 
soldiers and was called St. Francis de Sales Hospital. 


Old State Court House Site. 
(Hast side Capitol Square.) 


The first State Court House was located on Capitol 
Square, near the eastern gate opening on Franklin Street. 
It was destroyed by the fire of April 3,.1865. on the evacu- 
ation of Richmond. The court later was held in a build- 
ing on the east. side of 11th Street, between Broad: and 
Marshall Streets. The building was erected for religious 
worship and was known as*‘Sycamore Church,” so named 
on account: of the large trees that shaded it.. 


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Robertson Hospital. 


(Site, Corner Main and Third Streets.) 


This was the property of Judge John Robertson. He 
tendered it to Miss Sallie Tompkins who established at 
her own expense a hospital for the Confederate army. 
When all private hospitals were ordered closed, she ac- 
cepted the commission of Captain in order to continue 
her work. She refused the salary which attended the 
commission. A tablet bearing the following inscription 
marks the site: “On this site stood the Robinson Hos- 
pital in chage of Capt. Sale L. Tompkins, C. S. A., from 
1862 to 1865. Placed by Confederate Memorial Literary 
Society, A. D. 1910”. 

This tablet was unveiled by Captain Tompkins her- 
self. Captain Tompkins died at the Home for Confed- 
erate Women, 3. E. Grace Street, July 24, 1916. She 
was elghty-three vears old. 


Site of Edmund Randolph’s Home. 
(Southwest Corner of City Hall.) 


Edmund Randolph was the first Attorney General 
of the United States, and Governor of Virginia, 1786-’88. 
The inscription on the tablet follows: 


“Site of the Home of Governor Edmund Randolph, Pa- 
iriot, Soldier, Sta'esman. Placed by the Association for the 
Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, 1907.” 


Bloody Run. 
(A Stream that ran west of Chimborazo Park.) 


The Battle of Bloody Run was fought in 1656. A 
Cherokee tribe of Indians came across the Blue Ridge to 
trade furs with the white people. A battle followed in 
which many of the whites were killed. Totapotamoy was 
chief of the Indians of Hanover County, he married the 
queen of the Pamunkey tribe and became their chief. 
_ When Totapotamoy heard of the fight he brought a 
number of Indians with him to help the whites, he and 
many of his men were killed. The battle was fought by 
the side of a stream, the blood mixed with the water, hence 
the name Bloody Run. The English Government pre- 
sented Totapotamoy’s widow with a handsome crown, 
which is called the ‘Indian Crown.” It can be seen in 
the John Marshall home. 


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Confederate Navy Yard Site. 
(Opposite Rocketts.) 


At the intersection of Lester, Rocketts, Poplar and 
Ash Streets, a triangular piece of ground has been laid 
off to mark this site. The cannon which will be placed 
here were obtained from the war department and were 
built in the Springfield, Mass., Armory in 1866. They 
weigh 2,500 Ibs. each. The 30 balls from the Portsmouth 
Navy Yard will be pyramided alongside the guns. 
Commodore M. F. Maury, who invented the electrical 
submarine torpedo, first successfully exploded this new 
weapon of warfare in the channel of the river opposite 
this site in 1862. 


First Iron Foundry. 


The first Iron Foundry in America was established 
in 1621 by Governor Yeardley. In 1622 the workmen 
in the Foundry were killed by Indians, thus ending the 


FALLING CREEK 


foundry’s work. Not until 1914 was the exact site known, 
when Captain W. LaPrade, a Chesterfield County engin- 
eer, located it on the south bank of Falling Creek, op- 
posite the last of the Falls. 


Tredegar Iron Works. 
(South End of Fifth Street.) 
The Tredegar Iron Works were established in 1836. 


The location is at the foot of Gamble’s Hill, at the south 
end of Fifth Street. The Confederate Memorial Literary 


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Society has caused a tablet to be set in the walls recording 
that 1160 cannon were cast for the Confederate Govern- 
ment, and that the plates for the first tren clad ship, 
the Merrimac or Virginia, were rolled there. 


Belle Isle. 
(South of Gamble’s Hill.) 


This island is in the James River at the foot of 
Gamble’s Hill. It was the site of a large Confederate 
prison encampment. It is now occupied by the Old 
Dominion Iron and Nail Works. 


Old State Armory Site. 


The old State Armory was established about 1800. 
It was on the canal by the Tredegar Iron Works. There 
was stationed the Guard called the Public Guard, paid 
by the State. Virginia and South Carolina were the 
only states that had public Guards. 


Libby Prison Site. 
(Corner Twentieth and Cary Streets.) 


Libby Prison was an old warehouse. Here Novem- 
ber 6, 1911, a bronze tablet four feet deep and two feet 
wide was unveiled, bearing this inscription: 

“On this site stood Libby Prison, C.S. A., 1861-’65, for 
Federal Prisoners of war. Placed by Confederate Memorial 
Literary Society. Libby Prison was removed to Chicago 
during the World’s Fair of 1892.’ 


Following the first battle of Manassas, or Bull Run, 
so many Federal prisoners were brought into Richmond 
it became necessary to use large buildings for their con- 
finement. General Winder, then in command in the city, 
notified Mr. Libby he would take possession of the 
building within forty-eight hours. With so short notice 
to vacate, the sign of Libby & Son, by oversight, was 
left hanging up, and thus, by this trivial circumstance, 
did the building become known as Libby prison. 

Haskins & Libby and Libby & Son did a packet 
trade with the North. At the outbreak of the war, they 
owned a couple of steam packets. Their sailing packet 
schooners were sunk in the James to obstruct navi- 


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gation. The packet line of Haskins & Libby and Libby 
& Son was the forerunner of the Old Dominion Line. 
An ice plant now occupies the site of the old prison. 


United States Weather Bureau. 
(Hast End of Broad Street.) 


The local United States Weather Bureau is located 
in Chimborazo Park. 


Rocketts. 


Just below Libby Hill is Rocketts, so called from 
‘Richard Rocketts, who bought land and had a ship 
chandlery business near the river. He also ran a ferry. 
Rocketts is now known as Fulton. It is the oldest settled 
part of the city and the site of Smith’s attempt at settle- 
ment in 1608. 


Henrico County Court House. 
(Corner Main and 22nd Streets.) : 
The county seat was transferred here from Varina 
before the Revolutionary war, in 1752. Henrico County 
was one of the eight original shires of the colony, and 
such of its records as are filed there, will be found very 
interesting. 


Site of Office of Commissioner of Revenue of U. S. 
(N. W. Cor. Marshall and 11th Street.) 

Under John Adam’s Administration Col. Carrington 
held the office of Commissioner of Revenue of the 
U.S. for the State of Virginia. The office was at this 
corner and was shaded by a catalpa tree. 


Site of Camp Grant. 


Adjoining the new reservoir is the site that was 
known as Camp Grant after the evacuation of Rich- 
mond. 


Site of James M. Bailey’s Tebacco Factory. 
(Corner 100 S. Seventh Street.) 

This tobaeco factory was converted into a prison and 
soldiers’ home in 1864, in which were incarcerated con- 
scripts, blockade runners and maimed and discharged 
soldiers of the Confederate army awaiting transportation 
to their homes. 


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HOTEL RICHMOND. 


(Corner Ninth and Grace Streets.) 


Hotel Richmond has a note of Metropolitan thor- 
oughness that distinguishes the most famous among 
New York hostelries, while retaining that distinctive 
personal charm for which Southern hotels are celcbrated. 
It has an air of hospitality all its own. 


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RICHMOND 


HOTEL RICHMOND 


The ball-room and roof garden are among its popu- 
lar features. The appointments while luxurious have a 
quiet air of comfort and exquisite taste, and the service 
and cusine are all that can be desired. 


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CEMETERIES. 


In the cemeteries in and around Richmond are 
buried many of the makers of American History. 


Hollywood. 


(Cherry Street, between Spring and Albemarle.) 


This cemetery was dedicated in 1849. It takes its 
name from the holly trees which abound here. It is one 
of the most beautiful spots in the South and the view 
is magnificent. President Monroe and President Tyler 
are buried here. 


ENTRANCE TO HOLLYWOOD 


Fitzhugh Lee, soldier and statesman; “Jeb” Stuart 
the great cavalry leader; General Pickett, who made the 
famous charge at Gettysburg; General Pegram, Com- 
modore Maury, the former a famous Virginia soldier in 
the war of the Confederacy and the latter one of the most 
famous naval officers in history, are buried here. 

Maury won the rank of Commander in the Confed- 
erate service. In 1868 he accepted the chair of Physics 
in the Virginia Military Institute, at Lexington. His 
wife bought a section in Hollywood on Monroe Cirele, for 
his interment, and marked his grave with a simple monu- 
ment bearing this inscription: 

‘““Maury.—In memory of Matthew Fontaine Maury— 
Born in Spottsylvania County, Virginia, Januery 14, 1806. 
—Died in Lexington, Virginia, February 1, 1873.—‘All is 


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MAURY’S TOMB 


The hand- 
some monument 
which is erected 
over the grave of 
former President 
Tyler in Holly- 
wood bears the 
name of Letitia 
Christian, his 
first wife, who 
died in the white 
house and that 
of Julia Gardner 
his second wife, 
who is buried by 
hisSide. 2-2 


John Ran- 
dolph “‘of Roan-. 
oke ’’the famous 
orator is buried 
here and many 
of Virginia’s gov- 
CImors.. 4 


well.’ — Entered the na- 
vy of the United States 
1825; that of the Con- 
federate States 1861.— 
Author of Maury’s 
Sailing Directions, and 


The Physical Geogra- 


phy of the sea.” 

His body was 
kept at Lexington un- 
til the mountain ivy 
and rhododendron 
were in full bloom in 
Goshen Pass through 
which he wanted his 
body to be carried. 


TYLER’S MONUMENT 


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CONFEDERATE MONUMENT WILLOWS FROM NAPOLEON’S GRAVE 


The Ginter mausoleum erected by Major Ginter of 
Richmond and where his body now lies is not the least 
interesting object in the cemetery, while a giant pyramid 


— eae 


GINTER’S MAUSOLEUM MONROE’S TOMB 
With Tomb of Julia, oldest daughter of Pres. Tyler. 


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erected by the Confederate Women’s Association in 1869, 
marks the graves of 18,000 Confederate soldiers. This 
pyramid is built of rough blocks of Virginia granite and 
is 45 feet at the base and 90 feet high. 

The capstone was put in place by a convict sailor 
who was given his liberty after accomplishing this task. 
The architect was M. H. Demmock. 

Just a short distance to the west of the grave of Gov- 
ernor William Smith are the two Elms or weeping willows 
which came from the grave of Napoleon at St. Helena. 


THE DAVIS PLOT 


A bronze statue marks the grave of Jefferson Davis, 
and here are the graves of his wife and children. Over 
the grave of Winnie Davis stands the figure of an angel, 
carved in white marble erected by the Daughters of the 
Confederacy. 

On Memorial Day, May 31, 1915, a monument to 
Confederate women of Virginia, which dedicated the 
soldiers’ section in perpetual care was unveiled. The 
monument stands directly in front of the Pyramid. 
It is of Virginia granite surmounted by a bronze tablet 
2 x 3 feet and has this inscription: 


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“In Memorial to the Confederate Women of Virginia, 
1861-1865. The Legislature of Virginia of 1914 has at 
the solicitation of Ladies’ Hollywood Memorial Associa- 
tion and United Daughters of the Confederacy of Virginia, 
placed in perpetual care this section where le buried 18,000 
Confederate dead.”’ 

A handsome granite Arch marks the officers section. 
Placed by the Junior Hollywood Memorial Association, 
Oct. 4, 1918. 


Oakwood. 
(End of Oakwood Avenue.) 


Oakwood Cemetery contains 75 acres. It was pur 
chased and laid off by the 
city in 1861. Here are 
buried 16,000 Confederate 
soldiers. A granite shaft 
has been erected in their 
memory. This was un- 
der the direction of the 
Oakwood Memorial As- 
sociation. 


Shockoe Hill. 
(North End of Third St.) 


John . Marshall is 
buried in this cemetery. 
Here, teo rest the Allans, 
from which family Edgar 
Allan Poe took bis middle 
name and the founders 
of the modern city the 
men who made Rich- 
mond. Here is_ buried 
that hero of the Revolu- 
tion, Peter Francisco, CONFEDERATE MONUMENT 
whese sword blade was 
five feet long and who could shoulder a cannon 
weighing 1100 pounds. His fight against nine of Tarle- 
tan’s cavalrymen is still recounted in the history” of 
valient deeds by Virginians. Here, too, is buried Miss 
Van Lew, the famous woman spy of the great war, who 
aided Federal soldiers to escape from Libby Prison; 
Northern sympathizers have erected a tombstone of 
“Roxbury pudding stone,” over her grave, on the smooth 
side of which is an eulogy of her deeds. 


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National Cemeteries. 


There are two National cemeteries, one of which 
is at Seven Pines, the other is on the Williamsburg road 
at the corner of Government road. ‘These are the resting 
places of the Federal soldiers who fell in the fighting 
around Richmond. 


Other Cemeteries. 


Between 20th and 21st Streets on Franklin Street 
is the site of an ancient Jewish cemetery, the oldest in 
the United States. Over the gate that still stands is an 
inscription to that effect. Another Jewish cemetery is 
situated near the City Home and Hospital Street and 
a third is close to Oakwood cemetery. On the outskirts 
of the city by the side of the James are Riverview and 
Calvary cemeteries, while in South Richmond is Maury 
cemetery, where ruins of earthworks set up for batteries 
during the war may still be seen. 


Powhatan’s Grave. 

Powhatan’s grave was said to have been on the 
Mayo estate just 
east of Rich- 
mond, however, 
we have no posi- 
tive proof of this. 


The _ property 
was sold recent- 
ly and all that 
could be found of 
the remains of 
those who once 
rested there was 
interred in Hol- 
lywood, and the 
stone with the 
footprints, that 
marked the spot 
where tradition 
says the great 
chief lay, was 
preserved by Mr. 
Peter Mayo of 
Richmond. POWHATAN’S GRAVE 


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PRATY’S CASTLE. 
(South end of Fourth Street.) 
This building is north of Gamble’s Hill, and at- 
tracts the attention of every passer by, on account of its 


exceedingly unique appearance. 


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PRATT’S CASTLE 


MONUMENT AVENUE AND ITS MONUMENTS. 


Monument Avenue begins at the western end of 


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J, E, B. STUART 


Franklin Street and is a 
beautiful residential part of 
the city. © 


Stuart Monument is at 
the beginning of Monument 
Avenue and the intersec- 
tion of Lombardy Street. 
“This statue, erected by his 
comrades and the City of 
Richmond, A. D. 1906.” 

General . Stuart was 
born in Patrick County, 
Virginia, April 6th, 18338. 
He died in Richmond, Vir- 
ginia, May 12th, 1864. 

This monument is 
among the handsomest. in 
the City, and no one passes 
without pausing to admire. 


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R.A E. Lee Monument.—East end of the Avenue. 
Four models were submitted for this statue, but 
none were thought good enough. Mercie made a model 
which was accepted, be received 90,000 frances for his work. 
On May 4, 1890, the statue arrived in Richmond, 
and on the 7th it was loaded on four wagons, and men, 


oy 


LEE’S MONUMENT 


women and children hauled it to its pedestal. It was 
unveiled on May 30th by Genera: joe. E. Johnston. 

Lee was born in Stratford, Westmoreland County, 
Virginia, January 19, 1807. Died in Lexington, October 
12S LU) 

Jefferson Davis Monument.—Monument and Davis 
Avenues. The corner stone was laid in 1896, and a de- 
sign was submitted, but a change was made and it was 


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1907 before the present design was accepted. W. C. 
Noland designed the monument and KE. V. Valentine 
modeled the figure of Davis and the Allegorical figures. 
There are thirteen Doric columns which represent the 
eleven seceded States and the two which sent delegates 
to the Confederate Congress. 


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DAVIS’ MONUMENT 


The figure of Davis reached Richmond on April 18th, 
and was drawn by 3,000 school children to the site on 
Monument Avenue. The monument was unveiled at the 
Confederate Reunion and presented to the City on June 
3, 1908, that date being the one hundredth anniversary 
of the birth of Davis. Jefferson Davis was born in 
Kentucky, June 3, 1808; died in New Orleans. 


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THE HAMMOND COMPANY. 


Hundreds of visitors to Richmond will wish to see 
the home of the floral company whose fame extends 
over the entire South. The scientific growing of flowers, 
and developing new species is a facinating work, and the 
Hammond Company has acquired fame in this depart- 
ment. But, it has also accomplished wonders in a com- 


HAMMOND’S 


mercial way. It has devised new methods of producing 
and packing flowers for delivery to distant cities to 
insure their arrival perfectly fresh and fragrant as when 
cut.. This has: given to the South the service described 
by the term “Flowers of Guaranteed Freshness.” The 
Hammond show rooms at:109 East Broad and:the great 
greenhouses in Ginter park are open to visitors at all 
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STATUES IN THE CAPITOL SQUARE. 


Henry Clay.—Statesman. Born in Hanover County 
Virginia, April 12, 1777. Died in Washington, June 29, 
1852. This marble statue, by Hart, stands under a can- 
opy in the southwest corner of the square. It was un- 
veiled April 12, 1860. 


HENRY CLAY WILLIAM SMITH 


William Smith.—North end of Square.—On the front 
panel of Statue: ‘Wiliam Smith, Virginia. Born Sept. 6, 
1797; Died May 18, 1887. 1836-40, 1841-42, Member of 
Virginia Senate; 1846-’49, Governor of Virginia; 1841-'43 
1853-61, Member of United States Congress; 1861 ’62, 
Member of Confederate States Congress; 1861-’62, Colonel 
49th Virginia Volunteers; 1862-63, Brigadier General 
Confederate States Army; 1863-64, Major General Con- 
federate States Army; 1864-’65, Governor of Virginia.” 


Jackson.—North end of Square. 

Inscription: ‘‘Presented by English Gentlemen as a 
tribute of admiration for the soldier and patriot, Thomas 
J. Jackson, and gratefully accepted by Virginia, in the 


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name of the Southern People. Done A. D. 1875, in the 
hundredth year of the Commonwealth. ‘Look! There 
vs Jackson standing like a stone wall.’ ”’ 
A handsome equestrian statue of Jackson is being 
erected on Monument Avenue, to ccst not less than $40,000. 
General Jackson was born in Clarksville, W. Va., 


Jan. 21, 1824. Died in Caroline Co., Va., on May 10th, 
1863. 


ti 


HOUAHNEL 


GENERAL JACKSON HUNTER MCGUIRE 


Dr. Hunter McGuire.—North end of Square. 


Inscription: ‘“To Hunter Holmes McGuire, M. D., 
LL. D., President of the American Medical, and of the 
American Surgical Association; Founder of the Univer- 
sity College of Medicine; Medical Director of Jackson’s 
Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. An eminent civil and 
military surgeon, a beloved physician, and able teacher 
and vigorous writer, a useful citizen and broad humani- 
tarian, gifted in mind and generous in heart. This 
monument is erected by his many friends.” 


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OTHER STATUES AND MONUMENTS. 


Jefferson Statue.—In Jefferson Hotel. 

Inscription: ‘“Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Decla- 
ration of Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for 
religious free- 
dom. Found- 
er of the Uni 
versity of Va. 
Vice President 
of the United 
States of A- 
merica, 1797- 
1801. Third 
President of 
the Unit«d 
States of A- 
merica, 1801- 
1805, 180é- 
1809.% Born in 
Albemarle, 
Va., April 13, 
1743. Died 
at Monticello, 
Vaz, July. <4, 
1826. Gov- 
ernor of Vir- 
ginia, §1779- 
ited he 


JEFFERSON STATUE 


George Washington (Houdon).—In Rotunda of Cap- 
itol. See pages 4 and 22. 


Equestrian Statue of Wectington suse under Capi- 
tol Square. 


Bryan Statue.—Monroe Park. 

This statue was dedicated by the people of Richmond, 
“The Character of the Citizen is the Strength of the State.” 
Born in Gloucester County, Virginia, Aug. 13, 1845; Died 
in Henrico County, Virginia, Nov. 20, 1908. 


Wickham Statue.—Monroe Park. 
Inscription: ‘‘Soldier, Statesman, Patriot, Friend. 
Presented to the City of Richmond by comrades in the 


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Confederate Army, and employees of the Chesapeake and 
Ohio Railway Company. William Carter Wickham.— 
July 23518800: 


WICKHAM’S STATUE 


Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument.—On Libby Hill. 
Presented to the city by the Soldiers and Sailors’ Mon- 
ument Association. It was unveiled May 30, 1894. 


SOLDIERS AND SAILORS’ MONUMENT 


The column which supports the bronze figure of a 
Confederate Soldier is a reproduction of Pompey’s Pil- 
lar, stands 100 feet in height, and the cost is said to have 
been $35,000. 


A. P. Hill Statue——North of the City limits on 
the Hermitage Road. 


“General A. P. Hill was mortally wounded near 


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Petersburg, Va., April 2, 
1865. This statue was 
erected by his admirers 
and comrades in arms.” 
It was unveiled May 30, 
1895. His body lies buried 
here. 


Howitzer’s Monument. 
—Harrison Street and Park 
Avenue. 

Inscription: ‘To the 
memory, the deeds and ser- 
vices of the Richmond How- 
itzers of the period of 1861- 
1865.” 


JAPANESE TOMB 


wood cemetery 


in Akitaken, Japan, 


Pipi 


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HOWITZERS’ MONUMENT 


Tomb of Tokukichiro 


Abe.—This tomb in Holly- 
attracts 
the attention of many 
visitors. T. Abe was born 
in 
1866, and died in Rich- 
mond in 1907. 


Morgan’s Drinking 
Fountain.—A memorial 
erected to the memory of 
Capt. Charles 8. Morgan, 


eC. 5. A., Inspector Gen’l 
} Imboden’s Brigade, Cavalry 


Division of Gen’! L. L. Lo- 


miax, Army of Northern 
#7 Virginia. “In memory of one 
| who loved animals.”’ 


Located, Shockoe Slip, 
13th and Cary Streets. 


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CHAS. M. STIEFF, Inc. 


One of the oldest concerns in the piano industry 
with a national reputation for making artistic pianos. 
From the very beginning 
in 1842 this concern be- 
came identified with 
American progress and 
American men. Gold 
medals have been award- 
ed at nearly all of the 
world’s expositions, a 
very great distinction 
for an American piano. 
This country has every 
reason to take pride in 
the record of this insti- 
tution among makers of 


pianos. The firm of 
Chas. M. Stieff, Inc., 
controlsitsown products, 
operating warerooms in 
many of the principal cit- 
ies of the United States. 
The Richmond Factory 
warerooms at 117 W. STIEFF PIANO HOUSE 


Broad ‘Street are worth 
visiting: while you are in the city. It is probably the 
largest exclusive’ piano house in the entire South. 


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RICHMOND PARKS. 


The aggregate area of the parks of Richmond is 
approximately 666 acres. 


Chimborazo.—Of the twenty parks in Richmond, 
Chimborazo park, at the east end of Broad Street, is the 
chief in point of interest. It is the site of the largest 
Confederate hospital during the war between the States. 
Tre United States weather bureau has its headquarters 
here. 

Libby Hill—Near Chimborazo park is Libby Hill, 
on the top of which stands the Soldiers and Sailors’ 
monument. 


LAKESIDE PARK 


Lakeside.—This park is located about seven miles 
north of Richmond. It may be reached by trolley from 
First and Broad Streets, Northside. For Ginter Park, 
cars leave from the same point. Ginter Park is on the 
same line. 


William Byrd Park, also known as Idlewood, corner 
Beverly Street and Davis Avenue, is reached by Main 
Street and Broad and Main Street cars running west. 
It marks the terminus of the car lines. The city reservoir 
occupies a portion of this park, and not far away is the 
pump house which regulates the supply of water. 

Forest Hill.—Another summer resort. This park 
may be reached by trolley from Broad and Seventh 
Streets, Southside. 


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Jefferson A small but beautiful park, at the 
east end of the Marshall Street Viaduct, corner of Twenty- 
first and Marshall Streets. 


Gamble’s Hill—At the end of South Third and 
Fourth Streets. It overlooks the James River and Belle 
Isle. The highest part of 
the hill is supposed to be 
where Captain John Smith 
planted the cross in 1607, 
marking the site of Rich- 
mond. The spot has been 
marked with a cross which 
has the following inscrip- 
tion: 


“Capt. Christopher New- 
port, John Smith, Gabriel 
Archer, Honorable George 
Percy, with gentlemen, ma- 
rines, soldiers, in the number 
of twenty-one, explored 
James River to the falls 
and set up a cross, Whit- 
Sunday, June 10, 1607. 
This monument is presented 
to the city of Richmond 
by the Association for the 
Preservation of Virginia 
T4B CROSS Antiquities, June 10, 1907. 


“Der Gratia Virginia Condita.” 


Monroe Park.—This park was at one time the old 
Fair grounds. In the spring of 1861, the first regiment of 
South Carolina troops, which were the first troops from 
the South, was encamped here. 

Now it is a square of shade trees and beautiful 
flowers: Centrally located, it is a real boon to many 
who stop there for an hour’s rest on a summer day. 


The statues of General Wickham and Joseph Bryan 
are near the Franklin Street entrance. 


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MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA. 
(Corner Clay and Twelfth Streets.) 


The Medical College of Virginia of today is the result 
of the amalgamation of the two medical schools existing 
in Richmond prior to 1918, the Medical College of Vir- 
ginia and the University College of Medicine. : 

The Medical College of Virginia was established in 
1837. Its first quarters were the Union Hotel, 19th 
and Main Streets. 


MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA 


In 1845 the building on Marshall Street was com- 
pleted. This building with its Egyptian architecture 
and its clinging ivy is one of the most imposing and 
-attractive buildings in the city. 

This was the only medical college which kept open 
its lecture halls within the borders of the Camladeracy 
during the Civil War. 

. The University College of Medicine, corner: ah E. 
Clay and 12th Streets, was founded in 1892, by: the late 


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Dr. Hunter McGuire. In 1910 the entire building was 
destroyed by fire, together with its equipment and 
museum, with other invaluable personal collections of 
members of the faculty. 

In 1912 it was rebuilt and the result is a magnificent 
building, with everything modern. 

[A bronze tablet set in the outside wall of the Uni- 
versity College of Medicine marks the site of the house 
in which Alexander H. Stephens, Vice-President of the 
Confederate States, lived during the early part of the war 
between the States. 


STATE PENITENTIARY. 
(Belvidere and Spring Streets.) 


About one block to the right or west of Gamble’s 
Hill is the Penitentiary, which can be easily located by 
the high white wall which surrounds it. The corner- 
stone was laid in 1797. It went into operation in 1809. 


THE OLD CAPITOL. 
( Northwest Corner Fourteenth and Cary Streets.) 


Tablet: “On this site the Virginia Legislature in- 
Oct., 1783, ceded the Northwest Territory of the . United 
States, and wn Oct., 1785, authorized the establishment of 
the State of Kentucky.” 


MECHANICS INSTITUTE. 
(Corner of Broad and Eleventh.) 


This Institute was organized July 15, 1854, at Odd 
Fellows’ Hall. It now owns a handsome building which 
is thoroughly equipped. 


FEMALE HUMANE ASSOCIATION. 


In 1805 the Female Humane Society began its work 
under the guidance of Mrs. Gen. Wood, whose heart had 
been touched by the appearance at her door of a homeless 
and friendless child. 

In 1843 they removed from the rough house that had 
been built in the outskirts of the city to a larger one. 
Now they are located at Highland Park, where they have 
spacious grounds and a desirable home. 


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MARINELLO SHOP 
312 East Grace Street. 


The Marinello Shop is the Mecca for ““The Woman 


Who Cares.” 


Anna M. Darlington, a registered chiropodist and 
cosmetician 1s proprietress, and she with her able 
assistants has the very finest methods of Electrolytic 


MARINELLO SHOP 


Massage, Instan- 
taneous Bleaching 
Process, Astringent 
Mask Treatment, 
etc. 


Appointments 
can be made by 
phone— 


Madison 2864. 


WHAT THEY DO 


Electrolytic 
Massage, Instan- 
taneous Bleaching 
Process, Astrin- 
gent Mask Treat- 
ment, Wrinkle 
Treatment, Me- 
thine Treatment, 
Antiseptic Hot Oil 
Treatment, Spe- 


cial Acne Treatment, Scarless Method of Electrolysis, 
Dry and Oily Scalp Treatments, Prismatic Ray Treatment 
Hand Massage, Shampooing, Clipping and Curling, Hair 
Bobbing, Manicuring, Chiropody and Foot Massage. 


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RLPETERS 


— Interior Decorator and Furnisher 


~ Fine Wall Papers, Upholstery and Drapery Mate- 


rials, Velvets, Brocades, Linens 


Period Furniture of Unusual Beauty and Occasional 
Pieces for both the Formal and Informal Rooms of the 
Aodern Dwelling, including Reproductions of Famous 
Old Italian Pieces. 


Lace Draperies, Rugs, Lamps and Shades. 


Interior and Exterior Painting and Finishing 


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WESTMORELAND CLUB 
(Corner Sixth and Grace Streets.) 

The real beginning of this club was a meeting held 
at St. James Hotel on January 29, 1877, and the printed 
records begin with this meeting. There was a social club 
which existed before 1861 and which held its meetings 
in rooms behind a drug store on Main Street, near Ninth, 
but after the war, no trace or record of this remained, SO 
there was no club. On February 12th, 1877, on motion of 
John Hampden Chamberlayne, the new club was Christ- 
ened, ‘“The Westmoreland.’ The first non-resident 
member accepted was Capt. Robt. E. Lee, of King Wil- 


WESTMORELAND CLUB 


liam County. Gen. Heth was its first President. Octo- 
ber Ist, 1879, the present club house was purchased. 
The rooms are delightfully spacious and bright and 
on the walls are many handsome and interesting paint- 
ings and portraits of famous people and places. 
f» The Battle of the Crater painted by John A. Elder 
is considered the artist’s mastcrpicce. The picture 
represents the rush of Mahone’s brigade to fill the gap in 
the Confederate lines made by the explosion of a “‘mine”’ 
in the siege of Petersburg. The sketch of the upturned 
boulder of red clay was made by Mr. Elder immediately 
after the battle. Several faces and figures in the scene 
were posed for by veterans, members of the. club. The 
picture was bought from Gen. Mahone at a cost of $1000. 


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RICHMOND GUIDE BOOK 87 


MISCELLANEOUS. 
Manchester. 


_ Manchester is the former name of South Richmond. 
It ‘was first known as ‘‘Rocky Ridge.” When annexed in 
1911, the name of Manchester was dropped officially, 
although many citizens still refer to it by the old familiar 
name. 

The Marshall Street Viaduct. 


This Viaduct connects Church Hill with the main 
part of the city. It was completed in 1911, at a cost of 
half a million dollars. It ison Marshall street and extends 
from 14th to 21st Street, a distance of about a half mile. 
At the highest point it is ninety feet above the ground. 
It was built by the Richmond and Henrico Railway Co. 


Mayo Bridge. 
(Connecting Fourteenth and Hull Streets.) 

This is a handsome new concrete bridge, across the 
James River, more than one-half mile long. It connects 
South Richmond with the main part of the city. 

Before the first bridge was built a ferry was run be- 
tween Richmond and Manchester. 


Alexander McRae’s Home. 


Diagonally opposite the residence of Chief Justice 
Marshall, No. 311 N. 9th Street, is the home of the 
Xaverian Brothers, once the residence of Lt. Gov. Alex- 
ander McRae, who “read law” under the Chief Justice. 
He was associated with William Wert in the prosecution 
of Aaron Burr, who was trted in the Court House on the 
site of the present City Hall. 


St. Paul’s Church Home. 
(506 East Leigh Street.) 

This house was built more than a hundred years 
ago. About fifty years ago the home was bought by St. 
Paul’s Church for the orphans of Confederate veterans. 
It is now a home for any orphan who needs its shelter 
and protection. 

Marion Harland spent her girlhood days in this 
house, and it was here that ‘“‘Alone,” her first novel was 
written. 

Ninth Street Bridge. 

This bridge crosses the river at 9th Street and con- 

nects South Richmond and Richmond. 


88 RICHMOND GUIDE BOOK 


Colonial Mahogany Furniture 


Antiques and Reproductions 


Tapestries and Furniture Coverings 
Rare English Prints and Engravings 
Sheffield Silver, Colonial Brasses, etc. 


at 


| What you buy here will be right in Design, 
in Quality, and in Price. 

| BIGGS ANTIQUE CO. - RICHMOND, VA. 

Studios—318 East Franklin Street. . 


RICHMOND GUIDE BOOK 89° 


Lee Camp Hall. 
(518 Hast Broad Street.) 


This is the home of R. E. Lee Camp No. 1, Con- 
federate Veterans. 

The Camp was organized April 18th, 1883 and 
chartered March 18, 1884.. The Hall of Lee Camp was 
dedicated January 17, 1896,. The addresses were de- 
livered by Major N. V. Randolph, and Captain W. 8. 
McCabe, prayer by the late Rev. Dr. Moses D. Hoge. 

A valuable library and manuscripts of interest are 
in Lee Camp Hall. A portrait gallery of Confederate 
Generals and others who rendered heroic service, is the 
largest and most valuable in the country. <A large por- 
trait of General R. E. Lee by J. P. Waller is the center of 
the interesting collection. 

The Confederate Soldiers Home, on the Boulevard 
(See page 36), is owned and maintained by Lee Camp— 
The Daughters of the Confederacy hold their monthly 
meetings in the Hall and have entertained many prom- 
inent guests there, including Mr. Taft, Ex-President 
of the United States. The hall is opened to visitors every 
day. 

Confederate Fortification. 


Redoubt No. 10, in the parkway of Monument Ave. 
between Davis and Addison streets, was constructed in, 
1861 by Gen. Lee’s orders under the direction of his | 
military engineer, Col. Andrew Talcott. There were three | 
lines of these fortifications surrounding Richmond. The | 
lines neaerst the city was a succession of seventeen re- | 
doubts in horseshoe formation, No. 10 was on the inner line. | 
It was never occupied by the Confeder ates, nor attacked | 
by the enemy. A large fragment of it still remains on. 
the southside of Monument Avenue. ‘The site is marked 
by a cannon bearing this inscription: | 

“This cannon marks the spot where in 1861 a large. 
earthwork of the inner line was constructed. Placed in. 
1915 by the City of Richmond, at the request of the Con- 


federate Memorial Literary Society. | 


Confederate Money. 
Thé Confederate money used during the Ciyil re 


was Imade in.the building at the southwest corner of 
Ninth and Broad Streets. | 


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Established 1875 


SIGHT SEEING 


Richmond and Battlefields 
$2.00, $3.00 and $4.00 per hour 


SHOWING 
ALL 
POINTS 
OF 
INTEREST 


SATISFAC- 
TORY 


SERVICE, 
COMPETENT 
AND 
CAREFUL 
| CHAUFFEURS 


CADILLAC, CUNNINGHAM, 2 FORD CARS 
Taxicabs, Limousines, Sedan and 
Touring Cars 
Our motor service is first class in every respect 
For Social, Pleasure and Business. 


Main Office Phones: Jefferson Auto Stand 
Madison 69 Opp. Jefferson Hotel 
Randolph 224 Madison 7207 


| HICKS AUTOMOBILE CO. 
| 101 E. Main St. 111 W. Main St. 


RICHMOND GUIDE BOOK 91 


AUTOMOBILE DRIVE FOR TOURISTS. 


One of the favorite automobile drives for tourists 
is from the Capitol to Chimborazo park, to the reservoir 
and return. Starting from the Capitol square the motor- 
ists turn into Capitol Street from Tenth Street, pass City 
Hall, turn into Eleventh Street then into Broad, and 
Twelfth Street and Marshall, where the viaduct bridge 
lies before them. The bridge is over the Shockoe creek 
valley. It is a toll bridge and the toll is paid at the East- 
ern end, going and coming. Crossing the bridge the 
route proceeds up Marshall Street to Twenty-fourth 
Street, where the car should be turned to the right into 


PUMPING STATION 


Broad Street again to pass by Old St. John’s church. 
Passing this landmark the route continues out Broad 
Street to Chimborazo park, where the heights above the 
James may be skirted in a circle back to Broad Street. 
The return is made over the viaduct bridge back to the 
City Hall, Capitol and Tenth Streets, to Grace Street, 
along Grace Street to the grounds of old Richmond Col- 
lege, where a turn to the left brings the car into Franklin 
Street, which from Stuart circle takes the name of Monu- 
ment Avenue. The route is then along Monument Ave- 
nue to the Boulevard and continues around the reservoir, 
to the right, past the pumping station, where the water 
from the canal rushes past in a minature waterfall. This 
is one of the most picturesque views in Richmond. From 
the pumping station the route continues up a stiff hill into 


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WATCHMAKER, JEWELER, OPTICIAN — 

912 E.PMAIN ST. RICHMOND,WVA. 

‘Phone Randolph 2207 Established 1852 
The largest stock of watches in the State. This 


is the place to have your watch repaired quick, cheap 
_and in the best manner. 


Souvenir Spoons of the City and State. 
Spectacles and Eyeglasses accurately adjusted to 
the eyes. Consultation free of charge. 


Old Gold and Silver taken in E}xchange. 


| Young’s Art Shop 


Designers and Manufacturers 
of Select Frames 


Fine Art Publications and Original Paintings 
he restoring of old paintings 
Grace at Fourth 
Richmond, - - Virginia 


|}. Phone Madison 4121 
Have It Spitzerized 


THE ‘CLEANER AND DYER 
| 118.N. Eighth Street... ~.. RICHMOND, VA.. 


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William Byrd park, the roadway leading back to the 
Boulevard, through a beautiful wood and by a lovely little 
artificial lake. Back into Monument Avenue again the 
route continues along Franklin Street, past the Com- 
monwealth Club, the Jefferson hotel, to Fifth Street, 
where a turn is made back into Grace Street. The West- 
moreland club is passed at Sixth Street and on the right 
at Grace and Ninth is St. Paul’s church, on the left the 
Richmond hotel and ahead the capitol grounds. 

For a longer ride, after passing the Boulevard at 
Monument Avenue the tourist may turn into Cary 
Street road and continue to Westhampton, around what 
is known as the loop, passing the grounds of Richmond 


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College and the Country club on Westhampton heights one 
of the most beautiful and picturesque drives in the 
country. Here the Home Guard of Richmond turned 
back Lieut. Dahlgren’s raid in 1864. The seenery from 
Westhampton heights is so beautiful that comparisons 
may not be made. The hills rise in wooded battlements 
until they are lost against the sky and below runs the 
river like a ribbon of tan, shaded with the richest red of 
the banks and fading into duller hues in the green dente 
of the woods. 


With the extension of Monument Avenue to Home 
Pen .road in’ Westhampton, another: Automobile. drive, 
or loop, will be added. This extension is already con- 
templated. The Richmond of to-day, 1919, is a won- 


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You will find 


HOME-COOKING 


at 


Mrs. Cook’s Cafeteria 


Directly opposite the Capito 
108 N. Ninth Street 


In the FOSTER BUILDING 


Open all day from 7 a. m. to 8 p. m. 


RICHMOND GUIDE BOOK 95 


derful growing city, far different from the Capital of the 
Confederacy which was almost destroyed by fire more 
than fifty years ago. 


BATTLEFIELDS AROUND RICHMOND. 


Seven Pines.—Eight miles east from Richmond and 
can be reached by electric line. The National cemetery is 
at this place. In all the war the nearest field of actual 
battle to Richmond was Seven Pines or Fair Oaks, May 
31, 1862, when General Joseph E. Johnston struck the 
first blow to break General McClellan’s grip on Richmond. 
In this battle Johnston was wounded and General Robert 
E. Lee took command of the Confederate forces, the 
' place he was destined to hold through the tremendous 
four years’ struggle that followed. Following Seven 
Pines came a week of fighting in which McClellan was 
driven back to Malvern Hill and Harrison’s Landing. 


Mechanicsville——Five and one-half miles northeast 
of Richmond. This battle followed Seven Pines or Fair 
Oaks, and was fought on June 26, 1862, under Lee and 
McClellan. 

[The drive to Mechanicsville is a pleasant one, and 
many of the Confederate breastworks may still be seen. 

Then follows in rapid succession: 


Gaines’ Mill.—Eight miles northeast of the city, 
and not far from Seven Pines. The battle was fought 
June 27, 1862. 


Savage’s Station—Ten miles east of Richmond, 
June 29, 1862. 


Frazier’s Farm.—Reached by private conveyance 
from Seven Pines. Battle fought June 29, 1862. 


‘Malvern Hill.—About 16 miles southeast from Rich- 
mond, where McClelland repulsed the Confederate attack. 
In the latter part of April, 1863, Colonel Dalghren’s 
troopers of General Kilpatrick’s cavalry approached 
within three miles of Richmond, but, retired, not being 
supported and not finding a ford where they expected 
one. The James River wasin flood and a couple of Dalgh- 
ren’s men were drowned in trying to cross the river at 
the place pointed out tio them by their guide, a:negro. 
Whereupon Colonel Dalghren hanged the negro to the 


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highest tree at the highest point he could find, which is 
now pointed out on the Gregory estate just beyond the 
Country Club. 

Yellow Tavern.—Nine miles north of Richmond on 
Brook Turnpike, is where General “Jeb” Stuart was 


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mortally wounded, in the battle which was fought oy 
11, 1864. <A granite shaft marks the site. 


Fort Harrison.—Nine miles south of Richmond. 


Here President Lincoln reviewed the Federal troops, 
on July 8, 1862. Interesting traces of the war may still 
be seen. 


Cold Harbor.—Ten miles northeast of Richmond. 
On this spot two great battles were fought, one on June 
27, 1862, the second on June 3, 1864. 


Chaffin’s Bluff.—Seven miles down the James River. 
Battle fought September 28, 1864. 


Drewry’s Bluff.—Six miles down the James River. 
Reached by boat or electric line. Battle fought May, 
1864. 


To Reach Battlefields. 


Motorists can reach the battlefield of Seven Pines 
by the Williamsburg turnpike. Below Seven Pines, across 
the Chickahominy, is Bottom’s bridge, where the Federal 
and Confederate forces faced and fought each other during 
McClellan’s march on Richmond. 

The battlefield of Malvern Hill can be reached by 
the Charles City Pike, which branches off from the Wil- 
liamsburg road just beyond the National cemetery. 

There is a good road to Williamsburg, Newport 
News and Old Point Comfort, known as the Peninsula 
highway in the motorists’ blue book, which is but another 
name for the old Williamsburg turnpike. 


Petersburg, where the Battle of the Crater was fought, 
can be reached by the Petersburg turnpike, by way of 
Hull Street, South Richmond, the old city of Manchester. 
From Petersburg there is a good road through Dinwiddie 
county to Farmville, Lexington, Lynchburg, to Natural 
Bridge and Roanoke. 


The Mechanicsville pike, a toll road, can be reached 
by the Fifth Street bridge, to Barton Heights. A bitter 
battle was fought at Mechanicsville during the seven 
day’s fighting around Richmond. 

Yellow Tavern, where Gen. J. E. B. Stuart received 
his death wound, can be reached by Brook avenue, also 
called the old Brook turnpike, which leads off Broad 


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Street, just west of First, Hermitage road, Chamberlayne 
avenue, through North Richmond and Ginter Park to 
Ashland and other points north. The Washington high- 
way runs through Hanover county and by way of Spottsyl- 
vania Courthouse to Fredericksburg, Stafford County 
Courthouse and along the old Telegraph pike to Dum- 
fries, Occoquan and Washington. 


ALONG THE HISTORIC JAMES RIVER. 


This river is perhaps the most historic in America. 
Since the days of Powhatan and Pocahontas the land has 
been under cultivation. Nowhere does there remain so 
many colonial estates. 


Powhatan.—When Captain John Smith visited 
this place it was an Indian Village. His description of 
it was that it was a most delightful situation. He pur- 
chased it from the Indians and named it ‘‘None Such.” 


Drewry’s Bluff is also known as Fort Darling. This 
is the fort which defended the city from being captured 
by the Federal gun boats in May, 1862. 


Henrico.—As early as 1611, Sir Thomas Dale estab- 
lished a town on the James River, which, in honor of 
Prince Henry, he called Henrico; from this originated the 
name of the county. It contained three streets of framed 
houses, church, storehouse, watch houses, etc., and was 
defended by a palisade and several forts. 


Dutch Gap is a curiosity to the many who see it. 
This gap was begun by General Benjamin Butler in 
1864 and finished by the United States Government and 
the City of Richmond since the war. It is almost 500 
feet long and 205 feet wide and shortens the distance 
between Richmond and the sea over five miles. 


Varina, located a short distance from Dutch Gap, 
was at one time the residence of Pocahontas and her 
husband, John Rolfe. Later it was the county seat of 
Henrico County. It was burned by Arnold in 1781. 
During the Civil War it was the place for exchange of 
prisoners and was known as Aikin’s Landing. 

Curle’s Neck is only 18 miles from Richmond. It was 
the home of Nathaniel Bacon, the first Virginia Revo- 
lutionist. 

Shirley, on the left shore about 30 miles from Rich- 
mond is the ancestral home of the Carter family. It 


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FORTRESS MONROE, VIRGINIA 


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MOTORING DRIVING GOLF TENNIS 
BOATING FISHING BATHING 


Interesting [lustrated Booklets, descriptive of the Hotel, Its 
Situation, Attractions, Climate, Baths and Treatments may be had 


by addressing the Manager, 


RICHMOND GUIDE BOOK 101 


is the oldest original house on the river—the birthplace of 
Annie Hill Carter, the wife of ‘‘Lighthorse’? Harry Lee 
and of the mother of General Robert E. Lee. 

Westover, the birthplace of Sir William Byrd, the 
founder of Richmond, with its historic and beautiful 
residence, dates from 1737. The building still exhibits 
many of the tastes of Colonel Wiliam Byrd, which were 
so in evidence when it was his princely mansion, said to be 
the richest mansion in America. It is situated on an 
estate which includes about 180,000 acres. William 
Byrd died in 1744, at the age of 70 years, and he sleeps 
beneath the old white marble monument in the West- 
over garden. 

Weyanoke, on the James, was presented to Sir 
George Yeardley in 1617, by an Indian Chief. 

Brandon is one of the most beautiful homes in Vir- 
ginia and has been owned by the Harrison family for two 
centuries. 

Jamestown Island is the site of the first English set- 
tlement in America, where the ships Susan Constant, 
Godspeed and Discovery anchored in 1607. The his- 
toric portion of the Island is owned by the ‘‘Association 
for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities” which asso- 
ciation, known as the “A. P. V. A..,’’ has restored and 
preserved many of the antiquities of this Commonwealth. 

The old tower built in 1617, and attached to each 
successive church on this site is preserved, and the 
present rest: red church was built by the Colonial Dames 
of America in 1907. It is an exact reproduction of the 
church on this site In which the Princess Pocahontas was 
baptized and married, which building was burned at 
Bacon’s rebellion in 1676. There are many memorials 
of interest on the island and a visit to this, the first per- 
manent English settlement in America, is the objective 
point of many tourists. 


FACTS ABOUT RICHMOND. 


Richmond has within the city limits more than 
160,000 people. 

Richmond has an area of 26 sq. miles. 

Richmond has $36,474,300 invested in manufac- 
turing enterprises which yield annual sales of $107,193 ,250. 

Richmond has an altitude above the sea level varying 
from 20 ft. to 188 ft. 


102 RICHMOND GUIDE BOOK 


Nirs. A. J. PYLE 


315 N. FIFTH STREET 
RICHMOND, ~ = VIRGINIA 
Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Clothing Cleaned or Dyed 
in the Best Manner by the Best Methods 
FRENCH CLEANING A SPECIALTY 
Madison 2522 PHONES Randolph 3397 


Telephone Randolph 3298 


The Capitol 


AUTO-RADIATOR REPAIRS 


26 N. Seventh Street RICHMOND, VA. 


Phone Randolph 2031 Repairing 


A. P. GENTRY 
BICYCLES, TIRES AND SUNDRIES 


508 W. Broad Street RICHMOND, VA. 


Virginia Farms, 
Colonial Homes, 
and Timberlands 
For Sale by 


Old Virginia Concern 


B. T. WATKINS 
28 N. Ninth St. RICHMOND, VA. 


RICHMOND GUIDE BOOK 103 


Richmond has nearly, $15,000,000 invested in the 
jobbing trade, with annual sales of $82,000,000. 

Richmeond’s Postoffice receipts amount to $1,200,000. 

Richmond’s banks have a combined capital and 
surplus of $20,000,000. Increase in deposits in past 
ten years 209 per cent. Resources $161,000,000. 

Richmond is the seat of the Federal Reserve Bank for 
the Fifth District. Total resources, $234,204,750.06. 

Bank clearings in 1918 were $2,404,367,314.00, an 
increase over 1917 of 63 per cent. 

Richmond’s Custom House collects duty to the 
amount of $1,000,000 annually. 


TRIPLE icAILROAD CROSSING 


Richmond is the seat of Richmond College. 

Richmond has the leading Medical College in the 
Southeast. 

Richmond has a great Theological Seminary. 

Richmond has a woman’s college. 

Richmond has three business colleges and a Me- 
chanic’s Institute. 

Richmond has about. 42 public schools and many pri- 
vate schools. 

Richmond has two universities for colored students. 

Richmond has sixteen hotels and accommodates more 
than 350,000 visitors annually. 

Richmond has four daily newspapers. 


104 RICHMOND GUIDE BOOK 


Visitors are invited to see 


COOK’S 


Collection of Photographs 
City, State, War, Colonial 
Oil Portraits and Decuments Copied. 
913 E. Main St. — Up Stairs. RICHMOND, VA. 


FINE GOODS LOW PRICES 


C. Lumsden & Son 
JEWELERS 


Souvenirs in Gold and Silver 


731 E. Main Street RICHMOND, VA. 


iSuTS~< | 
5 Sits ETCHINGS ADVERTISING 


RICHMOND, . 


Phone Madison 1317 L. J. ELMORE, Prop. 


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FRENCH 
CLEANIN 


ALTVIDGdS V 
MUOM SHIGVT 


Work Called for and delivered. 
1106 E. Marshall St. RICHM OND, VA. 


RICHMOND GUIDE BOOK 105 


Richmond has a motorized fire department. 
Richmond has 200 picked police. 
Richmond has five daily steamship lines. 
Richmond has six trunk lines and railways radiating 
in eleven directions. 

Richmond has three interurban electric railway lines. 

Richmond’s Clay Street electric line is the oldest in 
the world. 

Richmond is a midway on the Altantic Seaboard. 

Richmond is two hours from Hampton Roads, the 
greatest natural harbor in the world. 

Richmond is eight hours from New York and three 
hours from Washington. 

Richmond has the largest cigar factory in the world, 
making 400,000,000 cigars annually. 

Richmond has the largest cigarette factory in the 
world making 3,000,000,000 cigarettes annually. 

Richmond has the largest wood works in the world 

Richmond has the largest baking powder factory in 
the world. 

Richmond has the largest blotting paper factory in 
America. 

Richmond has the largest factory for the reproduction 
of antique furniture in the world. 

Richmond has the largest bottled flavoring extract 
factory in the world. 

Richmond has the largest fertilizer business in the 
United States. 

Richmond has the largest wholesale mail-order 
house in the South. 

Richmond has one of the largest locomotive Spnner in 
the world. 

Richmond has 170 churches of which 113 are for 
whites. 

Richmond has fourteen hospitals. 

Richmond has twenty-eight clubs and a Chamber of 
Commerce. 

Richmond has one of the handsomest country clubs 
in America. 


HOW TO REACH THE DEPOTS AND WHARVES. 


Union Station.—Robinson and Broad Streets, reached 
by Bread and 25th, and Main and Broad Street cars. 


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Elba Hardware Co., Inc. 


Hardware, Paints and Oils 
Lime, Plaster and Cement 
Window Glass 


422 West Broad Street, Corner Henry 
Phone, Madison 3552 


Oldest Hardware and Paint House on Broad Street 


ESTABLISHED 1857 
CHAS. HAASE & SONS 
119 W. Broad St. 


MANUFACTURING FURRIERS 
Complete Stock of Fine Furs. 
COLD STORAGE 


Hughes Hairdressing Parlors 
209 N. 3rd Street 


Manicuring, Shampooing, Scalp Treatments 
and Facial Massage 


Phone Randolph 850-J 


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RICHMOND GUIDE BOOK 107 


Terminus for Atlantic Coast Line, Norfolk & Western, 
and Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac. railroads. 
Main Street Station.—Fifteenth and Main Streets. 
Reached by Oakwood-Main, Oakwood-Broad, Clay 
Street, Broad-Main and Main Street lines. Terminus 
Seaboard Air Line, Chesapeake & Ohio, Richmond, 
Fredericksburg & Potomac, and Southern. 


Richmond and Petersburg Electric Railway Station.— 
Seventh and Perry Streets, South Richmond. Reached 
by Hull Street line, connecting with all lines at Broad and 
Seventh and Main and Seventh Streets, Richmond. 

Southern Station, South Richmond,—Reached by 
Hull Street line. 


Virginia Navigation Company’s Wharf, also 
Old Dominion Steamship Company—Foot of Ash 


Street, one block south of Main Street. Reached by 
Main Street line. 


PETERSBURG. 


Petersburg, situated just twenty-two miles south of 
Richmond, is also noted for its traditional interests. 
Traces of the early settlers as far back as 1645 are found 
there at the present time. The remains of old Fort 
Henry (constructed by a few colonists sent out from 
Jamestown by Governor Berkeley about that time) are 
solemn in their antiquity, and many traditions connected 
with the life of Pocahontas have their scenes there. 
Blandford Cemetery, in the suburbs of Petersburg, con- 
tains the ruins of Blandford Church, built in the early 
days of the colony, now restored. In the vicinity of 
Petersburg will be found the ancestral homes of the 
Harrisons, Randelphs, Bollings, Blands, Lees, Carters 
and others. During the Civil War of 1861-’65 Petersburg 
was the scene of many great battles, most important of 
which being the world-famed “Battle of the Crater,” 
which opened with the explosion of the most enormous 
mine that had ever been placed under an enemy’s line. 
Petersburg may be reached by both the Atlantic Coast 
Line, the Seaboard and the Richmond and Petersburg 
Railways. 

For full information, see the Petersburg Guide Book. 


108 RICHMOND GUIDE BOOK 


Murphy Coal ‘‘Service’’ 


Aa shah you want coal, you want it promptly, that’s one reason why 

you should order from us. Not only do you get the service of 
our new loading and cleaning machinery, and the army of wagons and trucks 
but also the EXPERIENCE of our Coal Experts who know your heating 
troubles and can tell you how to reduce your coal bill. All this is extra 
service that_ COSTS NO MORE. 


Seven Yards 
An army of horses and motor 


trucks to deliver quickly. Per- 
sonal attention to every order. 


New Offices 


1110 E. MAIN ST. 
PHONE, RAN. 71 


Murphy Coal ‘‘Quality”’ 


HEN it comes to QUALITY, ,,We Lead’’. Every year brings more 

regular customers, because: we buy only from the best mines 

in each field. We inspect every car. We use the very best machinery pro- 

curable in loading and unloading, thus having clean, uniform, long-lasting 

coal that cuts the heating and cooking expenses to a mere trifle. Call Ran- 
dolph 71 and talk it over with us. 


E.P. MIURPHY « son 


The South’s Largest Coal Dealers 
1110 E. MAIN ST. Phone, Ran. 71 


RICHMOND GUIDE BOOK 109 


‘The Shenandoah Apartments”’ 


IN LEE CIRCLE 


A modern model apartment house, each suite complete in 
every detail. An ideal home that combines pleasing service 
with genuine hospitality. For further information address 


“THE SHENANDOAH APARTMENTS’”’ 
Special rates to tourists. Allen Avenue or Phone Ran. 9893. 


Pin Money Pickles 
PLEASE 
Particular People 


MADE IN HMOND 
SOLD EVERYWHERE 
Addre s 


Mrs. E. G. KIDD 


1500 W. Marshall St.,. RICHMOND, VA. 


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Phone, Randolph 1802 Cees SE 


Gregory & Graham 
410 E. Main Street 
RICHMOND, VA. 


Modern Plumbing and 
Heating, Gas Appliances 
and Sheet-metal Work. 


HOT WATER, 
STEAM, VAPOR, and 
HOT Alk HEATING. 


Agents for the Quaker Boiler 
Steel Plate Pipeless Furnaces. 


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Suggestive..... 


of all that’s best 
in the 
FURNISHING 


of satisfying 
homes, is that 
Mammoth Furniture 
Emporium 
in the 


Heart of Gitp 


where visitors are right royally wel- 
comed. 


‘‘We ship goods everywhere”’ 


Sydnor & Hundley, Inc. 


OF CITY 


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MURS. Ml. B. IRIEINACIl 


Millinery 


3 East Broad Street 


‘The Little Paris Shop’’ 


Dash, Style and Youthfulness are characteristic 
of all Hats inspired by Reinach Millinery, a 
larger collection and more exclusive than shown by 


any one house in Richmond. 


Authentic Creations 


Individual in Design 


Moderaely Priced Quality Considered 


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Christopher Engraving Co. 


Photo Engravers 
RICHMOND, VA. 


We say we do good Ynicanizing, Make Us prove this to YOU 


Accessories - Gas - Oils. 
Fisk - Firestone - Goodrich and Gates Tires and 
Tubes 


THE INTERNATIONAL RUBBER SALES CO. 


GATES Sr. LIRES 


Authorized Service Station 
822 West Broad St. 


THE SERENDIPITY SHOP 


117 N. Adams Street between Franklin and Grace Streets 


RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 
- Mrs. MARGARET DASHIELL deals in Books and Prints 
relating especially to Southern History as well as Current 
Publications. 
Here also are to be found Curios of interest and beauty. 


Having an unusual clientele, this Shop uses no Sign; and 
the name, sponsored by HORACE WALPOLE, signifies,-~ 


“The Art of Finding Things.”’ 


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Che Home of "Printing that Pleases" 


CENTRAL P UBLISHING Co, Inc. 


1536-38-40 E. BROAD STREET 
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 


BOOK, CATALOG, JOB AND COMMERCIAL 
PRINTING 


Out-of-‘Gown Orders Secure Our Prompt Attention 


RICHMOND GUIDE ECOK Ltd 


The E. B. Taylor Company 


Importers and Manufacturers’ Agenis 


Fine China, Cut Glass, 
Earthenware, Glassware, Tin, 
Galvanized and Enameled Ware. 


House Furnishing Goods and Novelties. 


Nos. 1011 E. Main St. 1010-1012 E. Cary St. 
13, 15, 17 West Broad Street 


RICHMOND, 3 VIRGINIA 


Barnes Safe & Vault Co. 


DIEBOLD SAFES and VAULTS 


ROBERT H. BARNES, Prop. & Mer. 


1219 E. Main St. Phone Mad. 481 


Dealers in 


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MARBLE, GRANITE AND BRONZE 
MEMORIALS,TABLETS, ENCLOSURES 


opinebenaniniokt hen 


ULLERTON | 


ip 


mare 


QUALITY - SERVICE - WORKMANSHIP 


WHEN YOU ORDER A MEMORIAL, 
WHETHER A SIMPLE MARKER, OR 
ELABORATE VAULT, OR ANY- 
THING BETWEEN THESE EX- 
TREMES, YOU WANT IT TO SHOW 
QUALITY, ARTISTIC TREATMENT, 
AND CHARACTER. 


THIRTY-SIX YEARS OF CAREFUL 
EFFORT HAS MADE THOUSANDS OF 
PATRONS MY BEST ENDORSERS, AND 
THE WORK FURNISHED MY BEST REC- 
OMMENDATION. 


J. HENRY BROWN 


MONUMENTAL ARCHITECT AND BUILDER 


219-221- W. MAIN ST. RICHMOND, VA. 
; PHONE MAD. 3779 


RICHMOND GUIDE BOOK Lie ¢ 


ATELIER 


OF 
LIBERAL ARTS AND HANDICRAFTS 
118 E. Franklin Street—Linden Row. 
NORA HOUSTON ADELE CLARK 


WORK IN THE ATELIER: 


The Painting of Portraits, Interiors and Outdoor Scenes, 
Ecclesiastical Pieces. 

The Illustration of Stories, Books, Brochures. 

The Making of Posters, Book-plates and Cards, [luminated 
Manuscripts. 

The Crafts of Spinning, Dyeing, W eaving—Handloom and 
Basket, and Toy Making. 

The Restoration of Old Paintings. 


CLASSES IN THE ATELIER: 

Drawing and Painting— Modeling. 

Handicrafts and the affiliation of these arts to Occupational 

Therapy and Social Work. 

Working and Business Hours: 9:30 A. M. to 5 P. M. 
At Home in the Atelier Tuesdays at 5 o’clock. 

The atelier is open to visitors interested in seeing the objects 
of art to be found there. 

In the handicrafts room are a hand loom about a hundred 
years old, a muckle wheel and a little flax wheel, which are be- 
ing used again in teaching these ancient arts and their applica- 


tion to modern life. 


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ELON COLLEGE 


ELON COLLEGE, N. C. 


W. A. HARPER, LL. D., President. 


A college for men and women. For full 


particulars, address the President. 


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Index to Historical Persons 


Pcge 
PMEDA PETBSICEN i JOLT ie ese ee et ce nts ce ee es 49-61 
seg Ts RAN ST (ars Wy Se ine wa oye fn MR i eo, a rr 20-99 
Wali terei GPA @ Let aan Me SR Aa a lc fy Oe aR OE ole Naa ae 18 
DECOM. NatNanIO! yea iene ost os ee eal oh Pee A 20 
Peat OOUN sd LING CO VECNON athe en eas aa cae eid 31 
ESOL GE er Ee ee OO ea, suki on PE Da Athle Libe a 54 
Pett St ORM? ee ee a ee ee ae ee ee 54 
AL Sa niet AEN th oe ile eo en pa ae lle ee Sie ee 39 
PSODOLI Rue Pi htbete Sie ae a, SP ae ESE Ot ye ane nea 22 
PSG HA Nati: cen) O litigants Soo kes cee Se Base 39 
PSA MERe eer ae benjaniine, 2s sant cake 0 baw » hee ee 99 
RSUTT NEL Ur OME se te oo al An Se eee) nae ty, cteleg 40-56-87 
APOC SOLO OSV TLEATIN 16 cies nde Sak weiee®, CR RL hs MRE, 18-36 
EMT eatianare gy, Y Sie Ceyavst od De bce Cages Sa Searae= By Raliegh ae Se 37 
YUE EN ae O2955 5) rey | aes eR a ak en eg re 54 
SIL Wr Ee re OCR Beg 2) ety OS ns ER re Me On Pa cra 20-28 
Chee oe EL TV Vane eet aL Pe OE een LE! Fg eee en 24-28 
CESS aie PP) Gd Ta eras Bee, VOR ene aR aid 7/ lh SRO a, aa Sree 95 
PV ISS Ot COROT ee eel cy 8 hoo, caktn, Pe eee ed, Se ee 27-32-66-7 1 
POV iS RU ITITC MER reise Pa Lc ke be oes UES Rael tk 32-66 
DiGi ets eat iprc sae Tete eben ek, OF et fo ersk ite a em tet. age 55 
TOT reo eaeermes fs OT als At A Dlg eer cago Ro Sa esa el 23 
aederey Al Mae UTS Eo 9. tN Bees SSI Rn se viet sk ATE aie Serer Se ar wea yt ra 28 
Pillmiorerdviillards eee. oF cree eke ek ee Sei elas s 25 
HEAT CIGORE CLOlee re. as * 2 oy ta br en Meals AP A eee 30-67 
EL ahah Bal Ce vale iy il 0a he gy Unt gee is dele a ee ae ee 44 
GREAT CVU xeIiei ce mate a Mile then = Wie CAN te Det FOO de ree 51 
je toe Fed SoG Cela hele cae Ue Pe oy Sy SRN ie ae ot 
BN tte SELIG ee ida geen oN ere 24h lee cer es atone of nad then ts coh 26-37 
FAL ORO AO Ace Dimer tet Oy cy ern sR ie ee a. eo a, 76 
Be Ea ee Rod POE Lal baie sea at he Rh» NS ener ee 20-24-29-73 
Rear OLAUT +e DMM AR sn ee his ho nati eo! Or ee a 21-26-28-31-37-56-75 
Johnston, General Joseph E..........0..0455 Cie SERLL, aan 55-95 


Johnson, General Edward........... eT Ae BT ene! Te ee re DL 


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Page. 
Lalayettef Generales ack elds t lide ae eee 22-29-54-56 
Lafayette, George Washington......... ede g eee 53 
These Fitzhugh) cork. Yah tins, eeu Bane ete eee a 22 
bee; Robert: Hdtvard ssc ae aie | aan eee 24-28-29-50-70 . 
Leigh, Benjamin Watkine.. 0s cee ees os eee eee 40 
Letcher, Govermpr:>..52) een os Ook Oe eee 31 
Lewis, General. Andrew > sss ey Shee ee en eee 25-27-37 
Lineoln, Abraham. © ..d2< ts) be oes ek 33-51-97 
Pan s.Jennyis ga uh vik sinha een sees ee cece es a 56 
Madison, President... 9). Sai awhile eee 40 
Marshall? J obitieive, ids sao ee ee 25-26-37-40-48-50-54 
Wisisony Cre OP 6 ec. 3) hy eset tice sale cs oes ek 26-37 
Maury; Matthew. Fontaine: eur a sic) eee eee 40-59-63 
Niercer, James 5 222) 445 Gh on sate ok te eee 53 
Monroe; Jaities i342: oo ae ae ek ee ee ee 40-63 
Mocres Samuel Preston :2. 2 9. er oes eee 49 
MeClelland,..General (2 Seas ee 2 eee 95 
Napier, Lord. idetony ot Meee apeatete hd catch: sine ee ee er 55 
INE DOLCON Ys ore Da Mer ce SS, alge To a) ee Net ree 65 
Nelson; “Lnornan ss, az a tie tie ecm eat cloe nei yeaa eee 26-27 
Newport, Captains 5% via at wine vie cob ohaee ace ok eer 17-80 
PéorampGenertiihs fi oe se oe a eee 63 
Percy; ‘George,-Captaitiy 4 © a. 5 bien. a ce ee 18 
Fickett,-Genershiia tent alate one ok le ok ee ee 63 
Poe dgartaA lan yee ee eee Sua einie ee ee 38-51 
Poe Ehzabath Arnoldt \ 22425 foe es oe ee eee 38 
POGaHOntas SoPkh heroes kee eee ee esas Se ee eae eee 29-83-84 
Polke Geonidas' eo. noel tr iee: Series ree nt et) Aye een Re oe 40 
Rorter 2 a chee) Ss he ths eee ee oo rn eee ee 20 
Powhatan; o.5.c 500 2 eck k Woe ee ee he ee ee 18-68 
Price: ol Walésér ot sac eee 5 ih te 31 
Randolph; Gavernor .Kdmund 73,7 .372 6s cleaners 38-53-58 
Randolph; Johnsons Fb e FG nel ween eer, eer 64 
Randolph) Richards: 3.9 acts ee Se ee 36 
RolieJoha she) sesh ts cee Beo04, 70% fo“ostd 3s “a ‘ot tae aR eee 99 
Rose,Rev., Robert 3.6 isscessakiteos se tee © ete eied one 38 


Ruffing Mdm und) eels shee eek We tacts Shane eee ee 29-54 


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Page 
Brinch, Governor Willigt. | 2 Acc 0.4 beni eat Lctedaie epiorks 39, 40 
Pee EGY Ce ATICR ITI OLIN) 5: tds van Gch Oates ay Poe hs ea sig Le ek ok 17, 29 
SH Dave SRV OPNOT Sica) sm anak: ake tne ka Fe hs or ntae e aaS 28 
Cee PeLRee AVC SNANIN 5s Mh ct MRT 2) ae Gs ME WT OE ots at 
RE a LOXMIL OD, a tieh ik lay te ree Bnet La aha et hres 82 
MME LR SOTOLAL So ciehy oe mete ne, Ghat ee woke aml ne be 20-51-63-96 
Pate SeraEl WI CTICTA Saree pir Cee Ue eek eRe Migs Ba 5d 
PEN sg VLREL OS fuse re dete”, tie th eRe oe denen de Ca eee SES 28 
ASS RD LOOP ATE NS Ye Re One | PRE ar a ee) ne te See ee Ee 25 
PROUTLIEN tae Mee eirae ig a ea a Gee ine et) She te a ae 57 
EGU OLRINO Mon mies Gee 2,8 e hate bare k vss Madea Gel eos 58 
POmeLeDea Pe EIT ETTL 6) OT) tal dy. Wats oR, kc koa Ok emia 24-56-64 
Gare VAISS eae ten hen Ce A OR ir ae bof Se ea week ryt 
Washington ...%. 5. ach. es ERAN Pr ere Acet la bet ee PIMs 4 24-29-54-75 
NI eZ Ott CURL Fe Veo ei ate. a oR OG Sate a rele OW Adon the 33 
Wap erentiin, Crater a ive. tt ke neers AU a wide dhe Sal os aoe e ib ote 75-80 
VC hen Vy LUA inn eta Oe Pare Ne creer eT eck Lis 40 
NEC OO VELIIOTALL RTO A Gite oa ea NR He Last oP apes dod, ip acta grea 49 
REL CRC TOOT OR Cte See ee muy i er a ht Dnt Ree Pe Ae 49 


peemeatrel enV MC eV OTTICN ee Set oe ten whe sik BE teeta ho oh stains Pepite's 59, 101 


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